The risky trips took 10 to 30 days, officials said, and forced children as young as 18 months to endure treks through harsh deserts and desolate mountain passes, as well as malnourishment and nights of sleeping on the lobby floors of dingy hotels.
Attacks on villages in recent days by horse and camel-mounted Arab militias and organized bands of outlaws have sent renewed waves of thousands of people, mostly women and children, trekking in harsh conditions to seek refuge in the towns of Darfur.
In the exhibition's other, equally haunting film, a man treks through similarly harsh conditions as he follows a path through the Pyrenees used by refugees from occupied France in the 1940s.
Unable to keep up with the pace of the group as they trekked through the harsh border region, he had been left behind in the desert, his friend said.
From El Paso the Rio Grande veers north and the border continues its relentless trek west, through the harsher, cactus-studded desert of New Mexico.
Starting today, tens of thousands of vaccinators set out on the first of Somalia's 2004 National Immunization Days (NIDs), a three-day trek through the country's harsh and hostile environment to deliver the polio vaccine to every child under 5 years old.
Cheered on by spectators here at the Carnegie Science Center who watched Nomad deploy via satellite link, the trek is to test the robot's ability to explore a harsh environment while being commanded in real time by humans 8000 kilometers away.
I first heard about the Camino de Santiago years ago, when a family friend attempted the 800-mile trek from Le Puy-en-Velay Puy-en-Velay Puy-en-VelayCompostela in Spain, in the middle oFranceour harshestowinterSantiago
But after trekking across the country to meet families of victims of these mob lynchings in recent months, activist Harsh Mander believes it's the state that is ultimately responsible to stop the violence, not Silicon Valley.
