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09/28/04: Factual Aspects FD.2: Rape & Sexual Abuse; FG.1: Ethnic Cleansing

An Attack on the Will to Learn
Sudanese villagers recount Arab militia assaults on blacks' schools. They say the aim is to rob children of their education.
KALMA CAMP, Sudan — The walls of the school at Kailek village were made of straw and sticks, so the bullets went right through them.
As the children studied one morning about six months ago, armed Arabs on camels and horses attacked the village in Sudan's Darfur region and surrounded the school. They raised their weapons and fired again and again, gunning down the trapped children and teachers.
The most haunting memory of that terrible day is the sound of children screaming and weeping.

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