Darfur Village Being Attacked

Creator

Hammad Haroon Abdallah Daya Bourma

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Creation Date

January 2007

Time Period

circa 1974-2007

Abstract

Drawing done on 26th June 2007 by a 13 year old Darfuri boy in a Chadian refugee camp. He depicts how his village in Darfur was attacked by the Janjaweed militia group four years before the date of the drawing. He shows how houses were burned down, how the government attacked villages using machine guns mounted on trucks and how the Janjaweed on camel backs attacked the villages. Horses were also used to transport the militia group to kill whoever tried to escape while government helicopters and tanks were used to bomb villages and to flatten them.

Alt Text

A child's pencil sketch with some details in blue pen and crayon or colored pencil on a worn sheet of white paper that depicts multiple human figures with high-caliber weapons and a few military-style vehicles. In the upper right of the page is a gunman riding on a camel, while another soldier on horseback is seen in the opposite corner. Also pictured are a truck with a mounted machine gun that is firing into an on-fire house, a helicopter, and a tank shooting mortar shells.

Keywords

Genocide, Ethnic conflict, Refugees, History, Darfur conflict

Extent

1 drawing

Subject: geographic

Darfur (Sudan)

Place of Publication

Refugee camp, Eastern Chad

Identifier

W36-00128-A

Recommended Citation

Haroon Abdallah Daya Bourma, Hammad, "Darfur Village Being Attacked" (2007). Waging Peace Darfuri Children's Drawings. Image 16.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/darfuri_drawings/16