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There are rooms you don’t forget.
I sat on a panel at Massey College alongside Romeo Dallaire and Bob Rae. We were there to talk about Sudan.
Not the abstract Sudan. The Sudan where — after an 18-month siege — the Rapid Support Forces stormed El Fasher in North Darfur and massacred a starving, defenseless population. Tens of thousands killed. The world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe. And still, the world looks away.
In Darfur, we have now failed to prevent genocide twice within a single generation.
The panel was convened by the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and Massey College, and moderated by Yonah Diamond, Senior Legal Counsel at the RWCHR. The room included Bob Rae, Dr. Nisrin Elamin, and Sadia Araa — a woman originally from El Fasher who spoke not as an expert, but as someone from there. Alongside international law scholars, diplomats, and members of the Sudanese Canadian community who have been carrying this weight for over 1,000 days.
I was there to bear witness.
We talked about protecting civilians. About the Responsibility to Protect doctrine that has been effectively sidelined. About delivering relief into places where relief barely reaches. About what it actually takes to end a conflict the world keeps choosing not to see.
It wasn’t easy to be in that room. But Sudan needs witnesses in every room it can get.
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“The recording is long. I won’t pretend otherwise. But if this crisis matters to you — this is the conversation worth watching.”
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