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 AMARAI, Sudan (AP) - Jar al-Naby was once a high school biology teacher, but Darfur's turmoil turned his life upside down. Two of his children and his brother are now dead, and he is a rebel commander.
It is a tenuous life, forcing al-Naby and his small band of fighters to always be ready to move. The shivering men, who sleep outside, quickly packed a pickup truck one frigid recent morning, with gear and two barrels — one for water, one for gasoline.
"It didn't always used to be this way," the 43-year-old al-Naby said, stroking his graying beard. "But life had simply become impossible," he said, referring to discrimination by the Arab-led Sudanese government that ethnic Africans say triggered their rebellion in Darfur in 2003.
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