“One thing I know…. The World has forgotten us.” -Amos Aguny Kur. Every day in the Sudan. In the region of Darfur. Villages are being destroyed. As many as 2.5 million have fled their homes. Becoming refugees in their own country. 400,000 have been killed. As the Janjaweed militia. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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“One thing I know…
The World has forgotten us.”
-Amos Aguny Kur
Every day in
the Sudan
In the region of
Darfur
Villages are being destroyed
As many as 2.5 million
have fled their
homes
Becoming refugees in their own country
400,000 have been killed
As the Janjaweed militia
rapes and murders its own people
Ethnic Cleansing
Genocide
Ryan Spencer Reed - Photojournalist
Darfur
is crying out
Darfur in perspective…
Population of St. Louis, Missouri:
352, 572
Total deaths to date in Darfur: 450,00
0
Imagine the city of St. Louis being wiped out…
…and no one saying anything
Population of the State of Kansas:2.6 million
Number of people displaced in Darfur: 2.5 million
Imagine the entire population of
Kansas…
…with no safe haven
Would You Speak?
Every day,
fear paralyzes the people…
More children are left fatherless,
And more mothers are unable to feed
their infants
We cannot stand idly by…
We have learned
from Rwanda…
The severity of the consequences…
“when good men do nothing”
Former President Clinton on Rwanda:
"All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror…
Never Again.”
From the U.N., to the U.S., to the grassroots public…
…we must show Darfur that we will not be bystanders.
“Speak up for the poor and helpless
and see that they get justice.”
Proverbs 31:9
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and
cruelty by the bad people,
but the silence over that by the good people.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“You must be the change you want to see in the
world.”Mahatma Gandhi
“Sudan has become today’s world capital
of human pain, suffering and agony.
What is at stake is our humanity.”
- Elie Wiesel
10,000 civilians a month
are still dying in Darfur
One person
every four minutes
“Whatever affects one directly,affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If the responsibility to protect means anything,then it ought to mean something in Darfur.”