Jailed Tribune Reporter Speaks About What He Saw

Several weeks back, Gov. Richardson of New Mexico went to Darfur and to help get the release of a Chicago Tribune reporter, Paul Salopek, jailed for 34 days. Paul has an article in the Trib about what he saw in Darfur.

(Chi Trib - free reg req)Darfur was a side trip. Other journalists and aid workers had described how some Darfur refugees in Chad were drifting back to their ruined villages to rebuild their homes. It seemed a rare chance to profile civilians clinging to life in an intractable war zone. With our arrest, we unwittingly became part of that survival story.