If I’m really honest, this is bad. They (janjaweed) go to the villages then they burn one village after the other. Then when the people come out they catch the women and gang bang, they rape them, not one guy, no, ten, fifteen and then they carve up the men and throw them in the drinking water to make sure that this place will never ever be used again. And you’re telling me people in America don’t know this or don’t want to know this. Maybe it’s too much to know, but that’s what happening right now, and it’s happening all over again.
I’m sorry to say, I’m going to sit here with you in two years time and I’m going to tell you the same sad story - people will say, ‘Ich habe nicht gewusst,’ which is German for I didn’t know.
Ashis Brahma, camp doctor, the only doctor on base at Hagala serving 25,000 Sudanese refugees. His reply when reporter, Scott Pelley asked, “What is it that you think people don’t understand about what is going on here now?”
