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..From the Podium.. Yasser Al-Fadni<\/p>\n
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Daqris\u2026 The Place Where Militias Bury People Alive<\/p>\n
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In Daqris, the tragedy does not begin at the gate\u2026<\/p>\n
It begins when the door shuts, and a person realizes that their name no longer matters, and that their life can be erased without witnesses, without a single question.<\/p>\n
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Daqris is not a prison.<\/p>\n
A prison presumes law, guilt, and a defined punishment.<\/p>\n
But Daqris is a void of mercy, a place designed to break a human being slowly, until they forget their voice, their face, even the name their mother called them at birth.<\/p>\n
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There, in western Nyala, bodies pile up like forgotten objects.<\/p>\n
Cramped cells, mingled breaths, hunger that cannot be sated, illness with no helping hand.<\/p>\n
Some die because they fell ill\u2026<\/p>\n
Some die because they starved\u2026<\/p>\n
Some die because the waiting stretched beyond what the body could endure.<\/p>\n
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In Daqris, screams are not heard for long.<\/p>\n
Sound is defeated quickly, and pain turns into silence.<\/p>\n
A heavy silence, resembling acceptance of death without resistance, because resistance itself has become a luxury.<\/p>\n
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The tragedy is that many entered Daqris without charge, without trial, without farewell.<\/p>\n
Those who leave\u2014if they leave\u2014emerge changed in ways that cannot be undone:<\/p>\n
Their gaze, their trust, their sense of safety.<\/p>\n
Others never leave at all\u2026<\/p>\n
Their names remain suspended in memory, their bodies vanished without graves.<\/p>\n
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Daqris is not just a wound in Darfur;<\/p>\n
It is a wound in the very idea of the nation.<\/p>\n
A place that tests how far a human can be humiliated,<\/p>\n
And how long the world can remain silent.<\/p>\n
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Mothers do not know if their children are alive or mere numbers.<\/p>\n
Children wait for fathers who may never return.<\/p>\n
And the country moves on as if nothing happened,<\/p>\n
As if death behind walls does not count as death.<\/p>\n
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From my podium I look\u2026 and I say:<\/p>\n
One day, this story will be told in full,<\/p>\n
And it will be said that there is a place in Sudan called Daqris,<\/p>\n
Where the aim was not punishment\u2026<\/p>\n
But to break the human being to the very end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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