An activist hopes to aid refugees, the victims of genocide in the Sudan.
By WAVENEY ANN MOORE, Times Staff Writer
ST. PETERSBURG - Rebecca Hamilton says she saw firsthand the horror of genocide when she traveled to the Sudan to work with refugees.
It's what she will share during a talk Thursday at the Florida Holocaust Museum. She also will speak about what ordinary people can do to help stop the killing and prevent similar atrocities in the future.
"There are things that the average individual citizen can do to make a difference to people who are facing genocidal violence in Darfur,'' Hamilton said.
"Over 300,000 have died already and nearly 3-million have been displaced and I think we lose sight of what that means. Behind those numbers are individual stories. Sudan is the country that has the largest number of internally displaced people in the world.''
The genocide in Sudan's Darfur region, where government-backed Arab militias, or Janjaweed, are destroying communities of African descent, is just the latest in humanity's history of systematic killings of a disfavored group. The full story >>>
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