searching for jacob

searching for jacob 主持人:It hardly seems possible, but the genocide种族灭绝in Darfur is taking into worse. The government in Sudan has launched a new offensive进攻, maybe trying to finish or and started it 3 years ago. More than 300,000 people are dead and more than two million are refugees in the Sahara.撒哈拉沙漠 To understand what is happening in Darfur, we came upon on the story of a boy named Jacob.雅各We only know him because his name is on schoolbooks found in the ashes of his home. Jacob's village was wiped out. We saw the books in a museum. We didn't know whether Jacob was alive or whether we could find him, but we decided to try. Our search turned into a remarkable journey into a place we were forbidden to travel, looking for a boy swept up卷起 in the 21st century's first genocide. 主持人:The museum is at the United States Holocaust Memorial in Washington. Dedicated to never letting genocide happen again, it now finds itself with fresh evidence in a new exhibit. 主持人:John Prendergast brought the remains from Jacob's village to Washington and to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. In the Clinton White House, he led a team that imposed economic sanctions 经 济制裁on Sudan. Now, he's with something called the "Enough Project", pressing for action in Darfur. John Prendergast:"We found in a book bag, a series of notebooks," "Clearly the kid who was doing math and spelling homework and the teacher has corrected it with a red pen." 主持人:The kid, Jacob, must have been 16 when his village was destroyed. We packed his books and left on a 7,000-mile journey.One reason the Sudanese苏丹人 government is getting away with murder is that the scene of the crime is about as far away as a place can be. We hired a bush plane to drop the team in Chad along the Sudanese border. There was no runway, just rocks marking a strip简易机场|跑道 in the Sahara. There are no roads either. We crossed with Jacob's books during the rainy season, when all the rain of the year falls in just a few weeks. But this wasn't the hard part.Our problem was, Jacob's story starts in a place we were forbidden to go. Darfur is occupied by government troops. Jacob's town, Hangala, is 50 miles inside. The U.S. State Department warned us not to try to go there. If we could get to Hangala, rebels反叛 者 who call themselves the National Redemption Front could help. It's their families who are being massacred屠杀, and they agreed to give us cover采访 to Hangala. That's the border we just cross xxx from heading to Sudan. We asked the Sudanese government for permission to come into Darfur but we didn't get it, which was no surprise - the Sudanese have been trying to keep reporters and other observers out of this area. They've intensified增强that effort lately. In just the last few weeks two journalists have been captured被俘虏 making this run.You can look at it this way: back in 1944, the Germans didn't want anybody coming in and seeing their death camps死忙集中营. Today in Sudan, the government doesn't want anybody coming in and seeing what amount to death villages. 主持人:It's a five-hour trip, but in the rainy season the gun trucks sank to their axels. We dug them out, and did it again every hour or so. In time, we picked up speed加速, and it was a good thing. Five hours turned to 12. By the time the group reached Hangala, there were 45 minutes of daylight left. The rebels put scouts 侦查员on the high ground and surrounded the village. 主持人:This is the picture of Hangala before the attack, this is the government did not want us to see. was a typical village, with a population of roughly 500; afterwards, the entire village was burned down. Asked why the entire village was destroyed, Prendergast :"It's a message to non-Arab people in Darfur. We do not want you in Darfur." 主持人:A message delivered by Sudanese troops and a racist种族歧视 者Arab militia called the Janjaweed. 主持人:How would this attack have played out on the day that it happened here? Prendergast: Five in the morning, people were woken up by the sound of aerial空中的 bombardment炮击. And then, the Janjaweed, the armed militiamen, come in on camelback骆驼背 and horseback. And they start burning and shooting the men, raping the women. And then the third phase is the government forces usually on the outskirts郊区, cleaning up anybody who tries to escape. 主持人:How many villages like this, have been destroyed in this way? Prendergast : Hundreds of villages throughout Darfur. We now have over two million people. About two and a quarter million people who are homeless" 主持人:Survivors took children and ran, an exodus迁移 without food or shelter until they came to refugee camps. Beyond the shimmer闪闪发光 of the Sahara, you'll find a refugee camp, Oure Cassoni, a warehouse仓 库 for a persecuted迫害 people. If Jacob was alive, he would be in a place like Oure Cassone. The camp was set up by the U.N. and an American charity, the International Rescue Committee, started in the 1930s to rescue Jews in Germany. Why are these people targets靶子 of genocide today? Because they're not Arabs. Sudan's government is an Arab dictatorship独裁. Ethnic种族 Africans have suffered discrimination for years, and when they rebelled in 2003, the government moved to exterminate消灭 them.Kids pay the price for their parents' wars and there are nearly 20,000 thousand children in this camp alone. Among them are four young orphans, ranging in ages from two to seven, whose grandmother packed them onto a donkey驴子 and walked three days. The grandmother tells Pelley that 28 family members were killed. 主持人:What happened to the children's parents The grandmother: His mother died. The bomb that was dropped from the plane cut her to pieces. She died instantly. But the father was killed by the Janjaweed. 主持人:There were more children in the clinic. Ashis Brahma is the camp doctor - one doctor for 25,000 people. Dr. Brahma:We have very simple drugs here but I'm doing funky独特得 medicine, voodoo 巫术medicine or bush粗鲁的 medicine, I'm doing what we can here with the medicines we have without equipments. 主持人:Our team met a starving child framed框架 like a picture against that vibrant响亮的 culture that used to be with little certainty of a future. Dr. Brahma was hopeful for this girl, suffering with meningitis脑膜炎, but she died in just a few hours. 主持人:"What is it that you think people don't understand about what's going on here now?" Dr. Brahma: "This is bad. They go to the villages, and they burn one village after the other, then when the people come out they catch the women and gang bang轮奸, they rape them not one guy, no 10, 15 then they carve up瓜分 the men and throw them in the drinking water to make sure that this place will never ever be used again. And you're telling me the people in America don't know this or don't want to know this. Maybe its too much to know but that's what's happening right now and its happening all over again,""I'm sorry to say I'm going to sit here with you in two years time and I'm gonna tell you the same sad story. People will say, 'Ich habe nicht gewusst,' which is German for 'I didn't know.'" 主持人:The man who doesn't want you to know is Sudan's dictator独裁 者 Omar al-Bashir. He has signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement but it never took hold. Al-Bashir launched a new offensive, and then last month came to the U.N. to hear President Bush say this to his face" Bush:"To the people of Darfur, you have seen unspeakable violence and my nation has called these atrocities暴行 what they are: genocide." 主持人:Sudan's U.N. representative众议员 looked amused during Bush's speech. Al-Bashir threatened war against U.N. Peacekeepers. Why do these guys mock the U.S. in public? It turns out our government's relationship with Sudan is complicated. In the 1990's al-Bashir hosted Osama bin Laden本拉登 for five years, so he has information on al Qaeda 基地组织. Prendergast: "It's been a very good deal for the government of Sudan to give little tidbits小花絮 of information about suspects around the world in order to blunt率直的 United States outrage愤怒 over what's happening in Darfur," 主持人:Last year(2005), the U.S. sent a private jet to bring Sudan's intelligence chief to CIA headquarters. Prendergast: "This is the same guy who was the architect 建筑师 of the counter-insurgency叛乱 strategy战略 in Darfur. What kind of signal does that send to the government of Sudan?" 主持人:"Look, this is a hard thing to swallow, because what you're saying is, the United States is in bed with the government in Khartoum 苏丹首府on counterterrorism报复性恐怖主义 issues and therefore we are looking the other way on a genocide I mean, that's tough," Prendergast: "I think it's a really heinous极可恶的 arrangement and one that history will judge very harshly严苛的," 主持人:To be fair, two administration officials told us the intelligence gained has been substantial. And, at the same time, the White House has been pressing hard for peacekeepers. One official said we expect al-Bashir to do both. The Bush administration was first to call the killing genocide and it's keeping refugees alive with half a billion dollars' of relief 救济a year. Our journey to find Jacob brought us to Oure Cassoni because U.N. records showed someone by the same name applied for a ration card here years ago. The people of Hangala were now in a part of the camp called "Zone C." So, nearly three years after they were left in the ruins, we brought the books to Hangala's teachers. One of the teachers recognized the name. "I was his teacher. I taught him," he told Pelley. "He is one of the best students." The teacher offered to take us to see Jacob. When arriving at Jacob's home, Pelley introduced himself. "Jacob? Hello, I am Scott. This is John. Sit down we want to show you something." Speaking through an interpreter, Jacob asked where the books had been found. "In Hangala," Prendergast replied. "All of this is mine," Jacob said. Jacob was now 19, and had been in the camp two years. 主持人:What happened to you , the day your village was attacked?" Jacob: "The Janjaweed, aided by government troops, attacked and burned the village." 主持人:What happened to the other members of your family? Jacob: Some of them were killed and some of them ran away. We don't even know where they are right now 主持人:We noticed how calmly he told the story. It's a strength of his tough desert tribe. And besides, he told us, the horror's恐怖 too fresh to dwell on.详述 Jacob: "We are disturbed, everybody is disturbed, we couldn't think straight, so we never got the chance to sit together and to think of whom we have lost and who is still there and our lives before," As for one of the items we brought along, Jacob said it belonged to his younger brother. 主持人:What happened to your brother? Jacob: He was scared by the bombing. And, when the Janjaweed attacked he ran. Nonetheless, he was killed. 主持人:And how old was your brother? Jacob: Almost four years old and he had never even entered school yet. 主持人:Jacob was glad to see his books again but asked us to take them back to the museums for the whole world to see, as he put it. We took the books but we left Jacob as he was, one of more than two million refugees who can't go home and have no future in the camps. As we headed out, Sudan's government had launched its new offensive in this African holocaust大屠杀 - what may be its final solution for the people of Darfur.