Tears of the Desert
One Woman's True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur
- 367 pages
- 13 hours of reading
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.