North Darfur, Sudan
CNN
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“La tasweer! La tasweer!” (“Don’t film! Don’t film!”) the general shouted, his eyes flashing with anger, his jaw clenched as he stormed towards us. A couple of fighters hopped off the back of the militia’s lead truck, fanning out around our vehicle, their rifles drawn.
The second truck that had been following us, tan-colored and laden with a heavy machine gun abruptly pulled over to our side, hemming us in.
There was a moment of panic — were they going to shoot us?
We had come to Darfur to report on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, never intending to become part of the story.
But months of planning came apart in moments when we were detained by a militia led by the man everyone called the general.
Cameraman Scott McWhinnie handed him the camera,…
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