Thanks to everyone who made it to the Coffee Talk: Darfur Diaries last night.

For those of you who did not have a chance to send an email to President Bush to speak out against rape and sexual violence in Darfur, please click here now.

We look forward to seeing all of you again at our next Coffee Talk!

Please join us on Thursday, June 28 at 7 p.m. in Classroom 1 for our first Coffee Talk of this semester: “Darfur Diaries.”

After decades of oppression, marginalization and increasing violence at the hands of the Sudanese government, the Sudanese Liberation Army in Darfur (the western region of Sudan) took up arms in 2003. The government and allied militias, known as Janjaweed, answered the rebellion with large-scale murder of civilians, mass rapes of women and girls, and destruction of villages—resulting in one of the world’s largest current political and humanitarian crises.

In October, 2004 three activists snuck across the Sudanese border into rebel-held territory to document the atrocities in Darfur. They returned with some of the first footage exposing the massive war crimes being perpetrated by the Sudanese government.

“Let us use [Darfur Diaries] as a wake-up call.” - Paul Rusesabagina

Click here for a PDF version of the flyer.