These Are Bombs

Creator

Abkar Azraq Jebreel

Files

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Creation Date

January 2007

Time Period

circa 1974-2007

Abstract

These pictures were drawn by Abkar Azraq Jebreel while in a refugee camp in Eastern Chad. He draws a picture of President Omar Hassan al Bashir of Sudan and goes on to draw how his village was attacked by militia men who came carrying machine guns while on foot, others came using horses and yet many more came in vehicles mounted with machine guns. Also depicted in the drawing is a military tank, bombs and helicopter that were used to raid villages in Darfur.

Alt Text

A hand-drawn pencil sketch by a child that depicts several different people and objects. Included in the illustration are: a man wearing an elaborate turban, a jet-like aircraft, a bomb, a tank, a soldier armed with a machine gun, a helicopter, an armed soldier on horseback, and a truck with a mounted machine gun that is being fired at a person standing in front of the truck and holding a spear.

Keywords

Genocide, History, Darfur conflict, Pictorial works

Extent

1 drawing

Subject: geographic

Darfur (Sudan)

Place of Publication

Refugee camp, Eastern Chad

Identifier

W36-00079-A

Recommended Citation

Azraq Jebreel, Abkar, "These Are Bombs" (2007). Waging Peace Darfuri Children's Drawings. Image 503.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/darfuri_drawings/503