We were the ones who had to know how to use escape codes to get our printers to work and sometimes wound up building our own PCs.

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In one of the refugee camps in Chad in 2005, we met Fatima, forty-two, who described how she had to escape her village of Girgira in western Darfur after her mother, husband, and five children were all killed by the Janjaweed militias.

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