“Never Again: The Darfur Crisis” a free panel discussion on the genocide in Darfur on Saturday May 3 at 4:30 pm.
Mawut Mayen was born in Southern Sudan. When he was three years old, soldiers arrived in his village, shooting people at random; he and his eight-year-old brother were separated from their parents in the jungle. Mayen and his brother walked nearly 1000 miles to Ethiopia, where they lived in a refugee camp. After the forced expulsion of refugees by the government, they made their way to another refugee camp in Kenya. In 2000, he moved to Seattle after being selected to relocate to America through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a degree in Economics, and serves on the Board of the Southern Sudanese Community of Washington as the Director of Membership. He recently returned to Africa and was reunited with his brother and their parents.
Guests on the panel are Diane Roseman Baer, co-founder of Save Darfur Washington State; Mawut Mayen, one of the “Lost Boys” from Southern Sudan and a founding member of the Southern Sudanese Community of Washington; and Ben Weintraub, a founding member of the University of Washington chapter of STAND, an international student anti-genocide coalition. Each will have the opportunity to speak about their personal story as well as consider how others can take personal action to help end the genocide in Sudan.
This is a free event and open to the public, presented in association with Intiman’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank
For more information visit www.intiman.org.
