Title

Janjaweed militia attacking a village in Darfur

Creator

Halima Abkar Youness

Files

Preview

Identifier

W36-00127-A

Creation Date

January 2007

Keywords

Genocide, Ethnic conflict, Refugees, Pictorial Works, History, Darfur conflict, Darfur (Sudan), Drawings (Visual Works)

Publisher

[s.n.]

Abstract

This picture was drawn by an 8 year old Darfuri girl living in a refugee camp in Chad. She depicts how her village was attacked both by the military of Sudan and by the Janajaweed militia group. The militia group came riding camels and used machine guns to shoot people in the village while the government used helicopter gunships to bomb the villagers. In order to destroy their livelihood, the military and the Janjaweed burnt all the houses in the village that they attacked.

Description

Wax crayons on drawing paper

Subject: geographic

Darfur (Sudan)

Place of Publication

Refugee camp, Eastern Chad

Subject: topical

Genocide; Ethnic conflict; Refugees; History; Darfur Conflict, Sudan, 2003-

Time Period

1974-2007

Type

Image

Genre

Drawings (Visual Works).

Holding Location

University of South Florida

Recommended Citation

Halima Abkar Youness, "Janjaweed militia attacking a village in Darfur" (2007). Waging Peace Darfuri Children's Drawings. Image 263.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/darfuri_drawings/263