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The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur

This is karma refugee camp home to nearly 200,000 our forest after 20 years of conflict the camp has become a city and 2 million people across the region have been displaced.

We are one of the first international journalists to travel freely here in a decade the world's attention may have shifted but the memories of the conflict are still fresh.

Here Ilia’s was 19 when he fled his burning home in the morning he teaches and in the afternoon he cuts her to earn a bit of extra cash somewhere forward of it what telegram does Dan Aikido forgot about the secret island.

The next generation of their forests are growing up in these camps all the children study in temporary classrooms their parents are too scared to return to their homes the government of Sudan wants these people to go back to their areas it says it's safe enough there are the peace process ongoing people.

Here have told me more than once that it's very difficult for them to move back to their homes when there is no security the conflict in Darfur began in 2003 when ethnic African rebels took up arms against emerald Bashir's Arab dominated government, Bechet responded by arming local militias known as the Janjaweed they burned villages.

And killed anyone that got in there the way local chefs say their lands are still occupied by settlers brought in from neighboring countries for them putting Bashir on trial is not enough so Mohammed,

I here am telling me that although there had been a shift in Khartoum the people who were overseeing the genocide and the ethnic cleansing is at the helm of power in this country and that the new prime minister although his visit to the government-controlled area he hasn't come to visit people,

Who are affected like the people here in karma, peacekeepers patrolled the lanes of karma but not for long in November the UN withdrew most of its troops from South Darfur leaving just 200 to patrol an area the size of England they plan to pull out completely within a year this UN base was meant to be transformed into a new University campus.

 As the loss of the peacekeepers left the base was looted whilst government troops watched the suffering in Darfur was a central the rallying cry of the protesters during the five-month revolution that Elated Bashir lost April,

But these words echo as far as therefore this attack at the end of last year suggests not 50 people were killed and 40,000 were displaced when their camp was burned as long as attacks like these go unpunished there will be no peace.