Before we get started, a warning. Today's episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and rape against women and children.

Tom Fletcher describes Darfur as the epicenter of suffering in the world right now.

It's a horror show.

He's the UN's top humanitarian and emergency relief official. He spoke to NPR last month.

Sudan's civil war has entered its third year, and in October, the paramilitary rapid support forces

seized control of the Darfur region from the Sudanese Army. Fletcher just spent a week there.

You're going through checkpoint after checkpoint manned by child soldiers. You're meeting people who are starving,

who've been displaced many times, victims of sexual violence, victims of horrible torture,

brutality. During one of those days, he met someone, a lady who had escaped from El Thasher,

the capital of North Darfur, where a paramilitary group had been

laying siege to the city. She'd seen her own child killed in front of her, her husband killed in front of her.

She'd gone next door to her neighbors who were all killed in front of her, and she'd scooped up

to one survivor, a two-month-old, malnourished kid.

This lady, she walked miles and miles just to escape.

And on the way, she'd been gang raped, she'd had a leg broken, but somehow she'd got to us,

and we were looking after her, we were saving that child's life, and we were trying to help

them turn the corner, but that's just one story among thousands. Consider this, the situation in Darfur is dire, with thousands killed and millions displaced by the fighting.

Coming up, we hear from another aid worker about the bravery he witnessed at a camp for internally displaced people there.

From NPR, I'm Juana Summers.

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