October 7 , 2004 Print this page

Eyewitnesses to Horror! Sudanese Students Studying at
La Salle University to Discuss Tragedies Happening in Their Native Land

“So many men have been killed. I and another woman buried seven men. We put the bodies we could not bury that evening in a shelter, but the Janjaweed returned in the night and burnt the shelter and the bodies…”

“One in five children in the region is a victim of severe malnutrition…”

Two La Salle students who are natives of Sudan will talk about the horrors occurring in their homeland at a panel discussion on October 12th at 12:30 p.m. One student is the son of a Commander in SPLA Sudan People's Liberation Army who has been involved in the North-South conflict which has been going on since 1983. He has been wounded at least 10 times in the combat. Joining the two Sudanese students will be four other La Salle students who are from African nations. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the University’s Diplomat-in-Residence Program.

“What is happening in the Sudan is now being called genocide,” says Dr. Cornelia Tsakiridou, Director of the Diplomat-in-Residence Program and a professor of philosophy at La Salle. “It’s crucial that everyone hear about what’s going on from students who live there.”

The event will be held in the Dunleavy Auditorium on the third floor of the University’s Student Union Building. For more information, call 215-951-1558.