Title: 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
Places: Sudan, Darfur (Sudan), Darfur
People: Halima Bashir (1979-)
Time periods: Darfur Conflict, 2003-