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Award of Excellence
Rick Loomis
the Los Angeles Times
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Ibrahim Djouma, 42, right, a mechanic, lost most of his family on the December day that anti-balaka forces launched a major assault on Bangui. His mother and two older brothers were shot and killed. As Djouma ran, he came face-to-face with a militiaman who shot him in the knee. Red Cross workers found him the next day and brought him to a hospital. That's where he was reunited with his 9-year-old son, Aroune, left, who was saved by a neighbor. He does not know what happened to his wife and two other boys. They fled and have not been seen since. "I just want to get out," he said. To date, the violence has killed more than 6,000 people on both sides of the ongoing conflict.
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