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Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda: the man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence
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As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the border
Every night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhtar put a small group of people in the back of his Toyota Land Cruiser and drove them under the cover of darkness from his home in the Sudanese city of Geneina across the border and into Chad.
The operation was an extraordinary act of bravery and selflessness: Mukhtar is an Arab, and the people he was smuggling to safety were members of the darker skinned Masalit community who were being targeted in a vicious wave of ethnic violence perpetrated by Arab militias.
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