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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.
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Tears of the desert : one woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur, Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 367
- ISBN10
- 0340925086
- ISBN13
- 9780340925089
- Series
- Tags
- True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Wars, Africa, Escape, Abuse, Women's Biographies, Based on True Events, Rape, Genocide, Muslim Women, Sudan, Sudanese Literature
- First published
- 2008
- Original title
- Tears of the Desert
- Rating
- 4.55 out of 5
- 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.