CNN’s Clarissa Ward Details Experience Being Held Captive By A Militia In North Darfur
deadline.comCNN‘s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her crew were held captive earlier this month by a militia in North Darfur, detained for about 48 hours before they were freed.
In an account of the experience on CNN.com, Ward wrote that she, cameraman Scott McWhinnie and producer Brent Swails were attempting to gain access to Tawila, a town under the control of SLM-AW, a faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement that is a neutral party in the civil war in Sudan.
There, they hoped to interview refugees fleeing the violence in what has become a humanitarian crisis. But they were detained by a militia led by a man who was referred to as the “general,” who apparently suspected them of being spies.
They were interrogated, she wrote, and “answered their questions but got no information in return: who these men were or what they wanted with us.” Ward wrote, “For the next 48 hours, we were held under armed guard by the general, the security chief and roughly a dozen soldiers, some who looked no older than 14.
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