SALHA, Sudan — The families had pooled their money for the convoy, hoping to escape the battle for the final piece of the Sudanese capital in late April. They had just set off when paramilitary gunmen shot out their tires at a roadblock, survivors said. The men were forced out, they recalled, then the fighters threatened to set the trucks on fire with the women and children inside.
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