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A review by cateresa
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir
5.0
A story that brings home OUR vital responsibility to help stop a genocide.
Halima begins her story with a beautifully evocative portrait of a bright, talented girl growing up in a close-knit family and a culturally rich village. She made me long deeply for a healthy rural Africa.
She continues to describe all the horrors that happened to her, neighbors, family and an entire region. Horrors that have not yet stopped, and that, as described in the epilogue, are powerfully supported politically and financially (oil for arms) by the Chinese. A must read.
Halima begins her story with a beautifully evocative portrait of a bright, talented girl growing up in a close-knit family and a culturally rich village. She made me long deeply for a healthy rural Africa.
She continues to describe all the horrors that happened to her, neighbors, family and an entire region. Horrors that have not yet stopped, and that, as described in the epilogue, are powerfully supported politically and financially (oil for arms) by the Chinese. A must read.