United Nations Refugee Agency on the Chad/Sudan Border

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The UN Regugee Agency says on their website:

 

"How bad is it?

 

Over the past three years nearly

200,000 innocents have been

killed – massacred, raped, or

become victims of disease. Two

million have been forced from

their homes, including 220,000

Sudanese refugees who have fled

across the border.

 

Marauding Janjaweed gunmen wielding

whips and guns are sending

villagers running for their lives.

Nearly 60 percent of these

innocents are children.

 

The atrocities committed in

Darfur – throwing children

into bonfires, spoiling wells

with corpses, stealing all

livestock, setting crops

and homes ablaze – occasionally

reach our front pages.

But the scope of these horrors

is steadily growing.

 

UNHCR field staff are putting

their lives at risk every day

to save refugee lives.