State of Humanity Forum: ‘Darfur silence is lethal’
The inaugural State of Humanity Forum, held Oct. 17 at Valley Beth Shalom.
The inaugural State of Humanity Forum, held Oct. 17 at Valley Beth Shalom.
In this remote region, more than 1.5 million African tribal farmers have been violently driven from their homes by the government of Sudan and the militias they armed, called Janjaweed (evil men on horseback). Despite repeated calls from humanitarian organizations and U.N. agencies warning of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, there continues to be a systematic program of expulsion, rape and murderous violence that has taken at least 100,000 lives.