Darfur’s Deadly Exodus

Photo of a Omar Diing Ruoic

Omar Diing Ruoic, chief of a Dinka village that was displaced to Beliel camp, says his people have been displaced several times in his lifetime. Originally from southern Sudan, his village was first forced to flee in 1987 from fighting that raged there during Sudan’s long civil war. More than 2 million people were killed in the last two decades of civil war between Sudan’s north and south, but that bitter conflict has drawn closer to a resolution in recent peace negotiations. Ruoic says his people would like nothing better than to return to the south if conditions permitted. “I hear about the peace, but I don’t see it,” he says.

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