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Below are photos taken by Mia. The people in these photos have lost everything and everyone.
The fled burning villages for safety outside of Darfur and arrived in and around Goz Beida. The border no longer protects them. Goz Beida has a small six room hospital and one doctor.
Sixty villages were burned by the janjaweed during the week that followed November 5th 2006. Thirty-two of the villages were near Goz Beida. |
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These children fled their burned village. Some had no food for more than a week. |
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This woman's son was killed when her village was attacked. Three grandchildren were burned alive.
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janjaweed in Goz Beida. These Arab militia crossed the nearby Darfur, Sudan, border to brutalize Chadian villages. |
This man is searching through the ashes of his former home in the village of Tamadjour, near Goz Beida. They were attacked by janjaweed.
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Children clustered under a tree.
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These three men are in the Goz Beida hospital.
Bloodstained gauze cover where their eyes once were. All attacked by the janjaweed.
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Terrified survivors cluster under trees while aid agencies struggle to respond to the latest rampage of terror.
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This woman was burned in her own hut. After three days in the hospital, she was sent away.
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Children sheltering under a tree.
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A woman who fled Darfur when her village was attacked in 2004. She ran with her baby son on her back. Janjaweed shot her. The bullet went through her baby, killing him. She walked for 10 days to Goz Beida where she found safety. But her attackers have now arrived here in Goz Beida. She lives in terror. |
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Mia is a goodwill ambassador for the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). The visit was organized UNHCR, a United Nations Refugee Agency. It was part of a fact-finding mission she is undertaking with the United States-based Save Darfur Coalition.
To learn more about the trip to Darfur read Mia's article Blood flows as red in Chad as in Darfur published by the Chicago Tribune, November 28, 2006 |
Mia Farrow comforts a wounded man in Goz Beida hospital. The man was shot in the lungs by men he described as Arab militia. © UNHCR/H.Caux |
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Abeche, the largest city in eastern Chad, was recently overrun by rebels. Family members of UN staff are being evacuated, and aid workers themselves may follow. This would leave thousands of displaced survivors utterly helpless and without hope. |
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Source: UNHCR, Global Insight digital mapping-© 1998 Europa Technologies Ltd.
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