Sudan - Militia Leader Describes Campaign Against Africans as Self-Defense
Monday, July 19, 2004 at 08:04PM
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In Sudan, 'a Big Sheik' Roams Free Militia Leader Describes Campaign Against Africans as Self-Defense
Musa Hilal sauntered into the lobby of a downtown hotel. Jittery eyes
followed the statuesque, copper-skinned man as he settled into an
armchair. He had recently been accused by Secretary of State Colin L.
Powell and others of leading the marauding militia that has plunged the
Darfur region of western Sudan into the world's most desperate
humanitarian crisis.
But Hilal has a different story. In a rare interview last week, he said
the crisis had been exaggerated and offered to give a tour of the vast
region where he had spent most of his life.[more] Pictured above: Musa Hilal
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