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Granted access to the capital city of North Darfur in Sudan, WIDE ANGLE reports from Al Fasher, once a sleepy desert town of 30,000, but today home to 100,000 refugees and 10,000 U.N. personnel. The film captures the desperation of daily life in Al Fasher's sprawling Abu Shouk refugee camp and travels beyond Al Fasher into the volatile rebel-held areas of Sudan to portray the lives of black African villagers who get up every morning to face yet another day filled with threats of looting, murder and rape by Sudan's pro-government Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed.
After five years of fighting in Sudan, an estimated two-and-a-half million people have fled their homes, more than 200,000 have been killed and two thirds of all Darfuris — some 4.3 million people — need humanitarian assistance of some kind. “Heart of Darfur” provides a nuanced report from the heart of an international crisis.
See previews and find out more at pbs.org
Watch it Tuesday, July 1st at 10:00 p.m. on KUAT6 & 9:30 p.m. on KUAT-HD
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