Shooting Elderly Women in Darfur

Creator

Hillal Altoum Idriss

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Creation Date

January 2007

Time Period

circa 1974-2007

Abstract

This picture was drawn in a refugee camp in Chad by a 10 year old Darfuri boy who recalls his village being attacked. When the Janjaweed militia group and Sudan's military attacked villages in Darfur, they shot anybody in sight including elderly women and children. The attacks were intense, and the government used helicopter gunships to bomb and burn villages. Armed Janjaweed militia came on camels and reinforced the government ground troops that were using armored tanks and trucks to attack villagers.

Alt Text

A child's pencil and colored pencil or crayon drawing on white paper depicting men on camels holding large guns and shooting at multiple other humanoid figures, including a women who is holding a baby. Illustrations of a helicopter and a tank are also seen, with the helicopter dropping what appears to be ordinance on a row of homes on which the child has drawn red crayon lines, implying they are on fire.

Keywords

Genocide, Ethnic conflict, Refugees, History, Darfur conflict

Extent

1 drawing

Subject: geographic

Darfur (Sudan)

Place of Publication

Refugee camp, Eastern Chad

Identifier

W36-00118-A

Recommended Citation

Altoum Idriss, Hillal, "Shooting Elderly Women in Darfur" (2007). Waging Peace Darfuri Children's Drawings. Image 259.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/darfuri_drawings/259