ANDREW Shaw – “Accusing Israel of being apartheid a common slur” (November 6) – in reply to my letter “Israel consistently ignoring UN’s countless resolutions’ (November 2), seems to suggest that because Israel is the only democratic state in the region, it has the right to defy international and humanitarian laws.
there are tens of women in this tent with their babies. all of them have gunshot wounds. they come from various towns and villages in darfur sudan. this woman and her nine month old son were shot as they fled their village. i was carrying my son and walking on the street. everyone was leaving, trying to get away. the bullet came from the direction of the north, we were headed west. my son was strapped to my back. i heard a bullet go through him and hit me here, narrowly missing my kidney. the blood was pouring, the boy was bleeding, and so was i. doctors without borders set up these tents to host the hundreds of refugees coming in every day. here we are in the hospital which was around 35 to a0 beds total. and now, in the past two weeks, we ve received more
it s the men and boys that were killed first. thousands of people keep flowing into this camp every day and most of them are women and children. there are very few men here. there are two possible explanations. one it is very difficult for the men to move or cross over from sudan into chad because they are the ones being targeted most by the militia. the second possible reason is that they have remained behind to fight and protect whatever little is remaining of their community. there are tens of women in this tent with their babies. all of them have gunshot wounds. they come from various towns and villages in darfur sudan. this woman and her nine month old son were shot as they fled their village. i was carrying my son and walking on the street. everyone was leaving, trying to get away. the bullet came from the direction