Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Activist calls on Americans to stop slaughter in Darfur

By MICHELLE L. QUINN

Matthew Emry has been in a lot of war-torn countries, but none have been quite as brutal as Darfur, Sudan.

It's hotter than anyone can imagine and the tension is so palpable as to defy description. And it's the only place he's ever worked where people hurt other people with wanton abandon.

None of those conditions are an excuse to ignore the Darfur genocide any longer, Emry told a group of 180 at Purdue University Calumet Monday night. The campus hosted Emry, senior program officer for the American Jewish World Service, and Scott LeFevre, a country representative with Catholic Relief Services, as part of a program it held with The Jewish Federation, Calumet College and The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gary. Read more >>>

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