Hagga Haroun another Life Taken in Darfur

Hagga Abbas Haroun lived in a village in the Southern part of Darfur called the Nyala Region. After witnessing her aunt, uncle, and cousin killed, she fled north to Egypt. Egypt provided a reprieve from the violence; but it was overcrowded, and provided little hope for a sustainable future.

Haroun and the group she was traveling with made it to the Egyptian border. They rested for the night waiting for their chance to cross over into Israel where they hoped they could start a new life and raise their family.

Hagga Abbas Haroun never made it to Israel, none of the group did. Those that were not killed as Hagga was were captured and held in Egypt denied admittance into Israel. Hagga’s daughter Samar survived and now stays with a relative. With her mother dead, and her father still in Egypt the live they hoped to make for their daughter is gone.

The people of Darfur have been chased from their homes, when they flee to Chad sometimes the violence follows; they’ve run all the way to Israel only to be met with more violence or turned away. Where are these people to go? It’s not as if they have abounded their homes or left to pursue riches of another country.

The Darfur refugees have been forced from their homes, and now struggle to find safety. Until the United Nations does what is right, and necessary for the people of Darfur, they will continue to live in fear as they search for a safe place to call home.