postcard no.//003
abyei,sudan//3.23.08
The Man for a New Sudan
by Eliza Griswold. Photographs by J Carrier.
“When Roger Winter’s single-engine Cessna Caravan touched down near the Sudanese town of Abyei on Easter morning, a crowd of desperate men swamped the plane. Some came running over the rough red airstrip. Others crammed into a microbus that barreled toward the 65-year-old Winter as he climbed down the plane’s silver ladder. Some Sudanese call Winter ‘uncle’ others call him ‘commander.’ On this day, angry and anxious, the people of Abyei wanted Winter’s help in averting a return to civil war between the predominantly Arab north and the black south — a decades-long conflict, claiming more than two million dead, that Winter helped to end with his work on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005.”
From The New York Times Magazine feature The Man for a New Sudan. Sunday June 15, 2008.
To see more photographs made on assignment for The New York Times Magazine article click the photograph above, you can also check out my archive of images from Sudan dating back to 2004.
