From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

What we're about to talk about next might be the most undercover story of human misery on planet Earth.

20 years ago, a genocidal campaign in the Darfur region of Sudan shocked the world.

Now, videos and images of new atrocities

have captured global attention once more.

About 150,000 people have been killed.

Some 12 million displaced, half of them children.

As another bloody conflict has returned to the region.

This week, the people of Alfashir.

Beaten and threatened, fled for their lives from a murderous militia that films itself

unleashing ferocious violence.

Today, my colleague Declan Walsh on what has become the worst humanitarian conflict in decades

and the precious metal that is fueling it.

It's Monday, November 10th.

Declan, in recent weeks, there have been many horrific images coming out of Sudan,

including what appear to be these very graphic execution videos. And this is all occurring as part of a civil war that you have

been covering since the start. Tell me what has happened in Darfur over the past couple of

weeks. Well, after 18 months of a pretty brutal siege led by this paramilitary group,

the rapid support forces, which had been trying to seize control of this city called El Fasher.

It was the last major urban center in western Sudan that was beyond its control. It finally

broke the siege and its troops seized

the entire city. They expelled the Sudanese military from it. And what followed was really days

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