Sixteen year old “Moro” is reputed to be one of the fiercest fighters from the rebel battalion based in Muzbat, a North Darfuri village now transformed into a Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) base. Unlike his jovial comrades, Moro has the stern look of a hardened soldier. He shows me a bullet casing tightly wrapped in leather and dangling from his necklace. “As long as I wear this [the military and Janjaweed] can’t kill me,” he said last June. What has made him so fierce? “Circumstances,” he says bluntly. “Because they burned our homes and stole our property.”

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