2008 Woodie Awards
Darfur refugees educate packed crowd about genocide
By Regis L. Roberts
Issue date: 11/2/07 Section: News
Originally published: 11/1/07 at 4:09 PM CSTLast update: 11/6/07 at 12:55 PM CST
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Hari has since been granted refugee status and resides in the United States.
Adam, now a New York resident and president of the Darfur People's Association of New York, lives with his wife, but the rest of his family is living in refugee camps in Chad as internally displaced persons within Sudan.
Adam and Hari agree that it is high time that the international community stop debating about what to call the crisis in Darfur - genocide, war crime, ethnic cleansing, crime against humanity - and simply stop the violence.
Adam said China, which has oil interests in Sudan, and Russia, which has arms deals with the Sudanese government, have provided diplomatic cover for Sudan in the U.N. Security Council.
He said China has blocked several U.N. resolutions concerning Darfur and weakened several resolutions that did pass.
Sociology senior Jordan Travis said she is well-known at Trinity as being very involved with the issue of the genocide in Darfur, which has so far claimed the lives of an estimated 400,000 people and turned 2.5 million people into refugees, according to the Save Darfur Coalition.
When she heard about "Voices from Darfur," she knew she wanted to get the university involved.
She said she worked with Trinity University Volunteer Action Community, of which she is the director of the Social Responsibility Branch, to bring the event to the campus.
For more information on Darfur and the Save Darfur Coalition, visit www.savedarfur.org.
For more information on "Voices from Darfur," visit voicesfromdarfur.org/page/content/voicesfromdarfur.
Adam, now a New York resident and president of the Darfur People's Association of New York, lives with his wife, but the rest of his family is living in refugee camps in Chad as internally displaced persons within Sudan.
Adam and Hari agree that it is high time that the international community stop debating about what to call the crisis in Darfur - genocide, war crime, ethnic cleansing, crime against humanity - and simply stop the violence.
Adam said China, which has oil interests in Sudan, and Russia, which has arms deals with the Sudanese government, have provided diplomatic cover for Sudan in the U.N. Security Council.
He said China has blocked several U.N. resolutions concerning Darfur and weakened several resolutions that did pass.
Sociology senior Jordan Travis said she is well-known at Trinity as being very involved with the issue of the genocide in Darfur, which has so far claimed the lives of an estimated 400,000 people and turned 2.5 million people into refugees, according to the Save Darfur Coalition.
When she heard about "Voices from Darfur," she knew she wanted to get the university involved.
She said she worked with Trinity University Volunteer Action Community, of which she is the director of the Social Responsibility Branch, to bring the event to the campus.
For more information on Darfur and the Save Darfur Coalition, visit www.savedarfur.org.
For more information on "Voices from Darfur," visit voicesfromdarfur.org/page/content/voicesfromdarfur.
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