Darfur refugee portraits
2007-02-15–2007-02-19The Zaghawa people live on both sides of the border between Sudan and Chad. Chad's president Idriss Deby is Zaghawa, a fact that gives them a more respected position in Chad. On the other side of the border, in Darfur, they make out a large number of the victims of the genocide, orchestrated by the sudanese government. In the refugee camps Iridimi, Touloum and Am Nabak close to the small desert town Iriba a majority of the sudanese refugees are Zaghawa's who doesn't want anything else than to return home. Most of the refugees from Darfur are women and children, in some camps as many as 80 % of the adult refugees are women. The reasons are several, polygami is practice, most men have at least two wifes, and many men have been killed in Darfur or have stayed behind to fight the Janjaweed militia.
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