Tears of the desert

Description:

Halima Bashir was born in Sudan. She left to study medicine, & returned as her tribe's first qualified doctor. Janjaweed Arab militias began savagely assaulting her people. She treated the traumatised victims. After speaking to a Sudanese newspaper & to the UN charities, the secret police came for her, interrogating & torturing her.

subjects: Genocide,  Ethnic relations,  History,  Physicians, biography,  Women physicians,  Refugees, africa,  Sudan, history,  Africa, biography,  Physicians,  Biography,  Refugees,  Women refugees

People: Halima Bashir (1979-)

Places: Sudan,  Darfur (Sudan),  Darfur

Times: Darfur Conflict, 2003-