This is a nine-year-old boy, native to Darfur. He has bruises and cuts from a beating that he received while trying to escape the Janjaweed. His parents were murdered by the Janjaweed, leaving him and his three young sisters to care for themselves alone. He must watch over, feed, and care for his baby sister, whom he holds close to her. He is thrown into an insomniatic state, fueled by fear. And everynight he prays to God, that he and his sister will survive the night. Through the morning he forages for water, being forced to walk miles to provide his siblings with what he can find. He must give his sisters all the food that he scavenged from an abandoned refugee camp, leaving him starving. His cuts become infected and he is in an immense amount of pain, as he slowly dies. He must live in fear, that the Janjaweed will find him and kill him.
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Have you tried to get into the head of a Janjaweed militiaman? Why does he see this boy and his sisters as a threat to his life? You have mentioned many times that this is religious - what is it about their clash of beliefs that is driving a people and a government to kill so many innocents?
Actually, the Darfurian people and the Janjaweed are both Islamic.
I apologize if their was any confusion.
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