A equipe da Human Rights Watch que está na fronteira do Chad com a região de Darfur (Sudão) forneceu lápis de cor e papel para distrair as crianças enquanto conversavam com os pais delas...

O resultado é comovente, principalmente se vc costuma mostrar com orgulho aquelas imagens de casinhas com sol sorridente cuidadosamente desenhadas por seus pimpolhos.

Os desenhos são acompanhados de pequenas explicações dos autores como:

Mahmoud, Age 13
Human Rights Watch: What's happening here?
Mahmoud: These men in green are taking the women and the girls.
Human Rights Watch: What are they doing?
Mahmoud: They are forcing them to be wife.
Human Rights Watch: What's happening here?
Mahmoud: The houses are on fire.
Human Rights Watch: What's happening here?
Mahmoud: This is an Antonov. This is a helicopter. These here, at the bottom of the page, these are dead people.

Magda, Age 9
We were running from the burning houses. Janjaweed and soldiers with guns and planes and bombs came, all together, quickly. They were shooting. My uncle was shot. I saw them taking women and girls away. All of us, my family, we were screaming and running from the Janjaweed to hide in the wadi [riverbed or oasis] holding each other by the arms to keep together. Here in camp we are safe, but my father he was lost.

Taha, Age 13 or 14
In the afternoon we returned from school and saw the planes. We were all looking, not imagining about bombing. Then they began the bombing. The first bomb [landed] in our garden, then four bombs at once in the garden. The bombs killed six people, including a young boy, a boy carried by his mother, and a girl. In another place in the garden a women was carrying her baby son... she was killed, not him. Now my nights are hard because I feel frightened. We became homeless. I cannot forget the bad images of the burning houses and fleeing at night because our village was burned

Mostafa, Age 8
We were running. From soldiers. Janjaweed. Planes. They were chasing us. These are men. These are women. We ran to the wadi [riverbed, or oasis]. Then we ran to Chad.

A tentativa de "limpeza étnica" sob responsabilidade do governo do Sudão começou em 2003... A ONU estima que 2 milhões de pessoas foram expulsas de seus lares e mais de 100 mil foram mortas.

Cadê a determinação da humanidade de impedir um novo holocausto?