Hard not to laugh when you’re told about Claymore landmines. I am being told of them by a helpful young Sri Lankan near a military checkpoint.
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/ 5 December 2006
One of the United States’s best-loved writers tells Euan Ferguson how an unlikely accident can make a likely story.
”When you see Darfur from almost a kilometre up, you realise nature doesn’t like geometry … As we civilised beings fly overhead, men are busy down below trying to kill each other. Women are seeking water to keep their children alive, and men are trying to stop them, and when the water is found it will make men kill each other once more.” Euan Ferguson visits the grim reality that is Darfur.