VOICES FROM DARFUR SPEAK UP
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(WBGO News 4/17/2008)

An estimated 400,000 people have died in the genocide in Darfur, Sudan over the last five years. A campaign of ethnic cleansing has been carried out by Sudanese government-backed Janjaweed militiamen against native tribes in the region. That’s according to the Save Darfur Coalition. The coalition is sponsoring a speaking tour in our area called Voices From Darfur in order to help inform the public.

Fatima Haroun left her native Darfur twelve years ago. She says the violence against Darfurians would not rise to its highest level for another seven years. But before she got out and on the day of her wedding, she lost her uncle to the guns and violence of the Janjaweed.

Haroun, who is now a social worker in Philadelphia, is a speaker with Voices From Darfur. Fatima says she continues to speak out on the genocide in Darfur for fear that people will lose site of the issue or think that they can’t help. She calls on Americans to contact the US government and call for intervention. Voices for Darfur will be making stops in Manhattan and Madison, New Jersey in late April.

© 4/17/2008 WBGO News