Canadian  STAND students use film to bring awareness at their university campus.

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Days brings grim reality

Student activists encourage genocide awareness

By Katie Hyslop

Darfur Days are coming to Memorial this month, asking students to pay attention to a grim situation – genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND) Memorial, a faction of STAND Canada, are holding three events this month in order to educate the public about the situation in Darfur, where since 2003 the Sudanese Armed Forces and Janjaweed militias have been carrying out a systematic genocide campaign against non-Arab tribes, which has resulted in the deaths of 200,000 to 400,000 people, and the displacement of over 2 million.

On Tuesday, March 18, STAND will show The Devil Came On Horseback, a documentary based on the memoirs of the same name by former US Marine Brian Steidle who spent time in Darfur in 2004.

The second event, on the following Tuesday, March 25, will be “Darfur and the Responsibility to Act” a panel discussion with Anne Wagner, directory of advocacy for STAND Canada, Natalie Oman, professor of philosophy at MUN, and keynote speaker Sergeant Debbie Bodkin. (more…)