Decades after Darfur was the scene of some of the 21st century's worst atrocities, Sudanese exiles say the nightmare has returned as images of fresh bloodshed emerge from the region.

For the diaspora watching from afar, alleged crimes in El-Fasher -- the last army stronghold in Darfur before its fall to paramilitaries last month -- mirror the massacres that once shocked the world.

"Sometimes it's hard to believe it's happening again," said Abdullah Yasser Adam, a researcher from South Darfur's capital Nyala, who now lives in Cairo and uses a pseudonym for security reasons.

"People are being killed without knowing why. It feels like the end of the world."

Adam, 45, belongs to the Fur community, one of several non-Arab groups targeted between 2003 and 2008 in the western region when Omar

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