Sponsored and Organized by Pace International Law Society (ILS) 

The week of September 19^th through the 22d, ILS is sponsoring Genocide Awareness Week. The event began as a desire to educate and fundraise around the genocide occurring right now in Darfur. ILS worked hard over the summer to organize a week of lectures, films, and music to raise awareness around the devastation of genocide in general and to raise funds for Darfur.

The first main event will take place on Monday, September 19^th, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Student Lounge. Gerald Martone of the International Rescue Committee and Jean Paul Samputu will be speaking about their Genocide-related experiences. Mr. Martone has served as the Director of Emergency Response Team for the IRC for 12 years. He will introduce us to the genocide now taking place in Darfur, Sudan, and describe his experiences in the field organizing the first humanitarian refugee camps for the IRC in Darfur and Chad. Jean Paul Samputu, the leader of the Rwandan band, Ingeli, will also speak about his and his band members’ experiences as Rwanda genocide survivors. The Monday event will culminate with an exciting performance by Jean Paul Samputu and Ingeli. Ingeli has been featured in numerous interviews on NPR, ABC and other news media as well as at performance events in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. In Washington, Ingeli participated in the Rwandan 10^th year anniversary memorial last year where they were welcomed by Angelina Jolie and Condoleeza Rice.

The second main event will take place on Thursday, September 22^nd, from 12:30-2:00 in the Tudor Room. There will be a panel of two speakers: Jimmie Briggs, author of "Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War," will speak about the exploitation of child soldiers in Uganda; Alephonsion Deng, co-author of "They Poured Fire on Us From Above," will speak about his personal experience as a Lost Boy of Sudan. The speakers will also lead a discussion following the panel presentations.

Throughout the week various movies and documentaries, such as Hotel Rwanda, will be shown. Please see schedule for times and room details.

Green "Save Darfur" wrist bands that proclaim "Not on our watch" to speak out against the Darfur genocide will be sold throughout the week from 9-3 at the ILS table outside the cafeteria and at each event. All proceeds and all donations will go to Darfur humanitarian relief. Private donations are also encouraged and a list of humanitarian aid groups for Darfur will be available at the tables.

CD’s by the Rwandan band Ingeli and books written by Jimmie Briggs and Alephonsion Deng will also be sold throughout the week at the table outside the cafeteria, during the main events in the Student Lounge and the Tudor Room and during all movies and documentaries. Ingeli band members and the book authors will be available for CD and book signing after their main events. Proceeds from those particular sales will support the genocide survivors’ new lives in the United States. Revenues from the sale of "They Poured Down Fire Upon Us" will also help to defray the medical expenses for Alphonsion Deng’s brother, mother, and other family members left behind at the Kakuma Refugee Camp.

Gerald Martone  
Jean Paul Samputu and the Ingeli 
Jimmie Briggs 
Alephonsion Deng 

Date: Monday, September 19^th, 2005
Time: 3.00pm to 5.00pm
Place: Student Lounge, Preston Hall, Pace Law School
Admission fee: $1.00 minimum
Refreshments will be available
Program:

- "Genocide Awareness" (with some focus on Darfur)
         - Gerald Martone of the International Rescue Committee
- "Genocide in Rwanda"
         - Jean Paul Samputu, head of Rwandan band Ingeli
- Performance by Ingeli 

Date: Thursday, September 22^nd, 2005
Time: 12.00pm to 2.00pm
Place: Tudor Room, Preston
Admission is free but contributions are appreciated
Refreshments will be available
Program:

- "A Perspective on Child Soldiers"
                - Jimmie Briggs, author of "Innocents Lost: When Child Sodiers Go to War"
- "A Perspective on the Lost Boys of Sudan"
                - Alephonsion Deng, author of "They Poured Fire on Us From Above" and a
                  survivor of the Dinkas Genocide in Sudan 

Tuesday:
      12 to 2pm: GACACA
       4 to 6pm:  Ghosts of Rwanda: Frontline (graphic images – viewer discretion
                          advised)
Wednesday:
       12 to 2pm: Child Soldiers AND 60 Minutes II: The Lost Boys
        4 to 6pm: Killing Fields
Thursday:
        4 to 6pm: Hotel Rwanda 

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GHOSTS OF RWANDA: FRONTLINE (2004)

A decade after the genocide in which Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Rwandans, PBS's Frontline takes a hard look at how such an atrocity occurred. The program examines the social, political and diplomatic conditions at the time of the genocide, provides firsthand accounts of the situation through interviews with officials, relief workers, U.N. peacekeepers, diplomats and survivors, and explores whether a similar situation could occur again. WARNING: VIEWER DISCRETIOIN ADISED - CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES.

SOLDIER CHILD (1998)

This documentary directed by Neil Abramson examines the rise and fall, as well as the reach and long-lasting effects, of religious zealot Joseph Kony in northern Uganda. For years, Kony exerted his influence on thousands of children, encouraging them not only to turn against their friends and families but to play an active role in their destruction. When the children's misdeeds come to light, the Ugandans take initiative in bringing on healing.

60 MINUTES II: THE LOST BOYS (2002)

(CBS) In Peter Pan, there were lost boys who fought off pirates and crocodiles before flying off to Never Never Land. In Sudan, thousands of lost boys fought off crocodiles and other dangers we can barely imagine and, as 60 Minutes II first reported 18 months ago, are happily flying off to a new life in the United States. Their incredible journey began 15 years ago, Correspondent Bob Simon reports, in the midst of Sudan's civil war in which two million people died. Their parents were killed; many of their sisters were sold into slavery. Many boys died, too . . .

Featuring interviews with individuals at the Kakuma Refugee Camp
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/01/60II/main502594.shtml

THE KILLING FIELDS (1984)

All hell is breaking loose in Cambodia: The militant Khmer Rouge is taking over, and genocide has begun. The true story of New York Times journalist Sydney Shanberg (Sam Waterston), who stayed on after the American evacuation, is a harrowing portrayal of the personal price of war and ambition. Haing S. Ngor won an Oscar for his supporting role as Shanberg's courageous assistant.

HOTEL RWANDA (2005)

Amid the holocaust of internecine tribal fighting in Rwanda that sees the savage butchering of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, one ordinary man (Oscar nominee Don Cheadle) musters the courage to save more than 1,000 helpless refugees by sheltering them in the hotel he manages. Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte and Joaquin Phoenix co-star in this powerful film (sort of an African version of Schindler's List) directed by Terry George. 

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