Connecticut Dream for Darfur Olympic Torch movement event .
My life has been eternally changed after attending an event that is dedicated towards promoting peace for Darfur, who has been going through an INSANE genocide during the last 4 years! At the event, there were survivors from previous holocausts and the Armenian , Cambodian, Bosnian, and Rwandan, genocides. They all told an incredibly intense stories of how they survived and their families didn't . I learned about Gabriel, who fled Sudan as a child at 10 years of age when his village was attacked by North Sudan Arab militiamen. He fled knowing only that his parents were lost in the attack - not knowing if they were alive. With other children whose villages had also been attacked, he walked for months, crossing the Nile and untold miles of desert. They finally reached Ethiopia, where they were safe, until political upheaval there meant that Gabriel and the others he had traveled with had to flee again. They made their way to Kenya and a refugee camp there. This primitive education provided in the Kenyan camp gave Gabriel hope for his future.
I was there to give a speech about how important it is to be aware of the things going on around the world today, and if at all possible, to reach out in hopes to change it. The slogan for this event was Bring the Olympic Dream to Darfur because next years Olympics is being hosted by China, and the slogan for the 2008 Summer Olympics is "One World, One Dream ". Right now China is selling weapons to Sudan, W h ich are in turn being used to kill and fuel the murderous genocide of innocent farming communities in Darfur. It's pretty sick to think about, but this kind of crap is going on all over the globe, so i grasp onto it and try and do my part to help and reach out.
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