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International | Anti-War | Police State and PrisonsDarfur Destroyed & Night Commuters: Uganda's Forgotten Children of War
In the Darfur region of western Sudan the Sudanese government and its Janjaweed allies have killed thousands of civilians, committed systematic rape, and destroyed villages, food stocks, and other supplies essential to the civilian population. Millions of people have been internally displaced or forced to seek refuge in neighboring Chad. The United Nations has called northern Uganda "the world's worst forgotten crisis." Every night as many as 40,000 children flee their villages to sleep in the relative safety of urban centers. Known as "night commuters", they do so to escape abduction, forced conscription, and sexual slavery at the hands of the Lord's Resistance Army, the brutal rebel force which has waged war against the government for almost two decades.
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