Refugee Camps in Darfur, No Treat

My boys went trick or treating last night, and received way too much candy as usual. We went to the same neighborhood we’ve always went to, the area in which their great grandmother lives. The neighborhood is safe, and their father grew up there everyone knows everyone. There is stability in the lives of my children, and I’m grateful for that.

The children and people of Darfur don’t have that luxury. They were first driven from their homes, and now are being driven from the refugee camps, they have tried to make home. Since 2005, the government has tried to close camps near cities in favor of camps in more remote locations.

"Our biggest fear is that this is going to continue," she said. "Even if it doesn't continue in the next week there is obviously a pattern here. It happens once, there's outcry, they stop trying to move people for a few months, then they try a new method of pressure" (http://voanews.com/english/2007-11-01-voa43.cfm)

Moving Darfur refugees to remote camps is at the least an attempt to break their spirits, and at worse to make it difficult for food and aid to reach the people. It’s sad that there has to be a fight for people to stay in refugee camps.