Darfur Genocide continues By Nat Hentoff
With a translator, Mr. Pelley showed Jacob the notebooks found in the ashes of Hangala. “All of this is mine,” said Jacob, and told of what happened to his family after the Janjaweed — the Sudan government’s hired rapists and killers — had burned down Hangala.
“Some were killed,” said Jacob, “and some of them ran away. We don’t even know where they are right now. We are so distributed we never got the chance to sit together and think of whom we have lost and who is still here, and our lives before.”
Mr. Pelley showed Jacob the ABCs lesson used to teach the alphabet. “This belongs,” he said, “to my younger brother. He was scared by the bombing (by the Sudan government’s planes) and when the Janjaweed attacked, he ran. Nevertheless, he was killed.”
“How old was your brother?”
“Almost 4 years old.”
