Angry Youths Become A Force In Darfur

A meeting of sheiks at another camp. The shabab, whose name means young men in Arabic, are challenging the sheiks, complicating efforts to achieve peace in the region. Evelyn Hockstein for The New York Times

From The New York Times:

HAMIDIYA CAMP, Sudan — The sheik was in a panic.

The agitated youth in this West Darfur refugee camp, young men and adolescents who traditionally would have deferred to his authority, had gotten wind of his presence at a ceremony also attended by an official with the Sudanese government, their longtime antagonists.

Terrified that the youths would accuse him of treason, the sheik begged United Nations officials to rush to his aid and vouch that he had not even broached the topic of compromise involving his people’s cause.

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My Comment: If I was living there, I would be do everything in my power to fight back. The leaders and sheiks have failed their peoples .... it is only natural that their credibility is at a very low level to the ones that they ar suppose to protect..