In a previous post, I wrote about the documentary film Soldier Child, about children kidnapped and used as soldiers in Uganda. Now I will talk about a second movie I saw that same weekend.
The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary about another human tragedy in Africa, this time in Darfur, Sudan.
Most of us know already about what is going on in the region, but this wasn’t like that not so long ago.
This documentary tells the story of Brian Steidle, who went to Darfur as an official military observer and witnessed the systematic murders carried on by the Arab government of Sudan against the African population of Darfur.
Brian Steidle, as part of his job, had access to regions where journalists couldn’t get and he documented the tragedy with thousand of photographs.
Since he was only an observer and wasn’t able to intervene, when he returned to the US he decided to spread the word about what was going on there with the hope that someone would answer his plea. But he only found indifference.
The movie shows the horror of this genocide and the desperate fight of a person to do something about it. The images are strong and very hard to watch but they help to understand the cruelty and the magnitude of the massacre.

Movie: The Devil Came on Horseback, Directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern

Book: The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace

Other movies about the subject:

Sand and Sorrow	Darfur Diaries: Message From Home
Darfur Now

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