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Fri 11 Nov 2008Displaced begin journey home but remain in fear of Janjaweed
IBRAHIM Isa Ibrahim's village is quiet now, a place where women in brightly coloured veils chatter together as they walk past tethered donkeys sheltering from the searing heat of Chad's dry season. But the day the men whom locals call Janjaweed came, the air rang with the sound of gunfire and screaming.
"They killed dozens of people including more than 10 from my family," Ibrahim recalls as he stands at the entrance to the village. "Then they set fire to our homes. They destroyed everything." Those who survived fled across miles of parched scrubland until they came across other displaced Chadians who had set up a makeshift camp.
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