RALLY TO END DARFUR GENOCIDE SCHEDULED
Providence Eyewitness News, RI
Associated Press
Oct 6 2007
BOSTON (AP) – Genocide survivors along with thousands of Massachusetts
residents are expected to gather on City Hall Plaza tomorrow to
support the people of Darfur.
The Dream for Darfur Rally will call on China to use its influence
to help end the humanitarian crisis in the Sudanese region.
Rally organizers say China has strong economic, political and military
ties to the Sudanese government and has considerable influence on
the African nation’s decisions.
The rally will also feature a torch lighting ceremony that will then
be relayed through 20 American cities.
The rally will feature genocide survivors from Darfur along with
genocide survivors from local Armenian, Bosnian, Cambodian, Jewish
and Rwandan communities, along with human rights activists, and
public officials.
The event starts at 3:30 p.m.