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- January 5, 2009
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- In the January 5, 2009, issue of the magazine, Jonathan Harr writes about the Sudanese refugee camps in Chad, and the work done by Yvan Sturm, the leader of a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Emergency Response Team. “Many refugees dispersed throughout Darfur, and others headed toward the border with Chad,” Harr writes. “The refugees hoped to return soon to their homeland, but, as the months wore on, more refugees arrived, bearing horrific accounts of janjaweed atrocities in one village after another.” Here is a portfolio of images from the refugee camps, by Christoph Bangert.
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Refugees in Bredjing, a refugee camp on the easter frontier of the African nation of Chad, near the border with Sudan. “The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees oversees the operation of twelve refugee camps with a population of nearly two hundred and fifty thousand Sudanese who have fled into Chad to escape death, mayhem, and ethnic cleansing,” Harr writes.
