07/18/2006

Mohamed and his family have fled to this refugee camp in north Darfur from their village three times in three years trying to find security, perhaps the most illusive condition in Darfur today. Mohamed is not alone. Many of the two million displaced people in Darfur today have been dislocated more than once. Sitting with a group of men on a barren hill beside the Tawilla camp, the 27-year old teacher demands to tell his story.

In 2004, Mohamed, a member of the Fur tribe (Darfur, the large region in western Sudan means Land of the Fur), fled his village of Dugu after an attack by the Janjaweed militia, a largely Arab group that has destroyed hundreds of villages, often killing men and raping women, in league with Sudanese government forces. Mohamed returned to his village three months later, when the government of Sudan assured him that the village was safe.