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  • Collection: Darfuri Children's Drawings

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This is a video clip from the performance, What the Heart Remembers: The Women and Children of Darfur. By Fanni Green & Jeanne Travers. Dir. Green, F. & Travers, J. University of South Florida Theatre 2, Tampa, Fl. 20-21 November, 2010.…

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Darfuri children living in a refugee camp are singing and playing despite having lived through painful moments when their villages were attacked by militia groups.

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This article was written by Justice and Equality Movement (JEMS), a militia group in Darfur. JEMS is very critical the work that Waging Peace, a British Non-governmental organization was doing in Darfur region and in Eastern Chad. The article goes on…

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The drawing by a Darfuri child depicts a woman being raped inside a house while there is an exchange of fire between men in a pickup truck and some on foot. On the upper part of the drawing is a man trying to destroy a house.

Arabic text in the…

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Drawing that depicts Sudanese soldiers abducting women at gunpoint and leading them away from their village. Some soldiers are hiding in trees and ambushing villagers. Airplanes and helicopters are targeting homes and setting them on fire.

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This drawing by a 15-year-old Darfuri girl depicts armed Janjaweed militia on horses and camels coming to attack her village. The drawing also shows women who had gone to the market being abducted at gunpoint by Janjaweed militia.

Arabic text in…

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This drawing depicts Sudan's military and the Janjaweed militia group attacking a village in Darfur. Some civilians had their heads covered with a sack before being shot dead. Some children had their hands tied and were thrown into a fire while a…

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Drawing that depicts the Janjaweed militia stealing livestock from a village in Darfur while military helicopters and tanks bomb village homes.

Arabic text on the drawing translates to, "Village of Taba (or Kaba), bloc #2, Sector (N), camp…

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Arabic text in the drawing translates to, "Salahuddin Abdaljabbar Bash, 4th grade. Farm, fourth grade zone A, mountain." On the back side of the drawing is Arabic text that translates to, "In the name of Allah the compassionate and the merciful."…
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