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"Smallest Witnesses. The Crisis in Darfur Through Children's Eyes"

Taha, Age 13 or 14:
"In the afternoon we returned from school and saw the planes. We were all looking. We didn't even dream of getting bombed. Then they began the bombing. The first bomb [landed] in our garden, then four bombs at once in the garden. The bombs killed six people, including a young boy, a boy carried by his mother, and a girl. In another place in the garden a women was carrying her baby son-she was killed, not him. Now my nights are hard because I feel frightened. We became homeless. I cannot forget the bad images of the burning houses and fleeing at night because our village was burned..."
© 2005 Human Rights Watch

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