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| Name | Sharif Barko |
| Date of Birth | 1961 |
| Date of Death | 16 January 2021 |
| Home Town | Muhanga, Southern Province, RW |
| Place of Death | London, England, GB |
| In Memoriam Donation | Donate to HMD |
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| 1961 | Born in Sendikoro village where he grew up in alrge family and worked as a peasnat farmer. He was also a house builder, shepherd and livestock trader | ||
| 1969 - 1975 | Farmer | ||
| 1976 - 1985 | House builder | ||
| 1986 - 2004 | Agricultural trader | ||
| 1998 | Met his wife and had two sons | ||
| 2003 | Sharif was captured and taken to jail in Khartoum | ||
| 2003 | Sharif's uncle found a sumuggler to fly him out . he arrived at Heathrow Airport. His asylum application failed. He was detained at Rugby prison for 9 months | ||
| 2005 | He was released and granted asylum. He moved to Tottenham in London. His wife and two sons were murdered in th egenocide in Darfur. | ||
| 2005 | He featured in the film Darfur House where he and three others built a traditional Darfuri house at the Museum of Childhood. | ||
| 2013 | Sharif became a British citizen | ||
| 2015 | Changed his name to Majed Hassan so he could viist Sudan again | ||
| 2016 | He returned to Sudan and remarried before returning to the UK. His wife had o remain in Darfur,. He visited her every year. | ||
| 2019 | He joined the delegation of Haringey Welcome to present a petition to the European Parliament calling for UK migrant and refugees rights to be considered in the Brexit deal | ||
| 2020 | Sharif's wife dies in childbirth in Darfur. | ||
| 2021 | Sharif returned to DArfur to bring his baby daughter to the UK. He was killed during an armed attack on a camp for displaced persons in El Geneina, the regional capital of West Darfur. He was helping civiliam women and children escape to safety as the camp came under siege. When he was injured, SHarif was taken to a Friend's home. However, he wa sfollowed by members of the militia and brutally beaten and shot dead alongside his friends | ||
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