In Sudan, stuck in a war zone with no way to flee.

• Author: Kristof, Nicholas D.
• Position: Brief Article - Column

Hawa Moussa Abdullah was lucky enough to survive the first round of murder in Darfur, but she was heavily pregnant and could not make the journey to Chad, where most of Sudan's survivors have escaped to. So she hides with her children in the hills, the five of them having to live like hunted beasts. It is the frail--the young, the old, the infirm--who remain, stuck in a war zone with no way to flee. It's progress that the world has denounced the genocide without waiting the customary 10 years before wringing its hands in regret. President Bush is already in...