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 borderEvery 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...

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