An estimated 200,000 people from Sudan's Darfur region have been killed and 2.5 million have been displaced by the slaughter committed by government-backed militias.As a people who have been victims of genocide as recently as the 1940s many Jews have become active in the Save Darfur organization and in efforts to provide assistance to the displaced survivors of ethnic cleansing in Darfur. In an effort to influence world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly photographs from the traveling exhibition Darfur/Darfur will be projected on a large screen at Grace Plaza at the intersection of Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and 43rd Street adjacent to the International Center for Photography Tuesday September 22nd and Wednesday September 23rd from 7:30 PM. On Tuesday the viewing will be preceded by a program at 7:00 p.m. that will feature remarks by Major General Scott Gration, the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan. The Save Darfur Coalition president Jerry Fowler, photographer Ron Haviv and the exhibit curator Leslie Thomas will also give brief remarks.
According to an event press release photographs from the exhibit will be projected while the United Nations General Assembly is in session and, while continually updated, this presentation will include images photographed in the time following President al-Bashir’s conviction by the International Criminal Court.
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