Pan-African Club and the Black Student Association Presents
Darfur
Crisis in the Sudan
When: Monday, May 16, 2005
Where: Forum 3-130
Time: 12:00 to 2:00pm
Special guest speakers:
Natasha Christensen
Abraham Chol
Gabriel Misaka
William Kuol
A preventable humanitarian crisis, affecting more than two million people, is raging in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Not since the Rwanda genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of slaughter, rape, starvation and displacement. Government-backed militias, known collectively as the Janjaweed, are systematically eliminating entire communities of African tribal farmers. Villages are being razed, women and girls raped and branded, men and boys murdered, and food and water supplies targeted and destroyed. Victims report that government air strikes frequently precede militia raids.
Shirley Batistta-Provost
Assistant Director, Campus Center
05/11/2005 |