Amel Means "Hope" (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:24:59
Dr. Mohammed-Ahmed Abdallah, medical director of the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture in Darfur, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the current situation on the ground in Darfur. He is visiting the United States to receive the 2007 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
"We have to face this. The Rwanda problem is again occurring in Darfur. Unless the people are thinking that, unless all these Darfuran people are killed and then later coin it as genocide, there's no meaning to say it. I think we have to be courageous, there is a genocide in Darfur and we have to stand against this, we have to support these people. And since they are calling for a united Sudan, then I think we need to support them, we need to stand with them. "
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Piece Description
Dr. Mohammed-Ahmed Abdallah, medical director of the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture in Darfur, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the current situation on the ground in Darfur. He is visiting the United States to receive the 2007 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. "We have to face this. The Rwanda problem is again occurring in Darfur. Unless the people are thinking that, unless all these Darfuran people are killed and then later coin it as genocide, there's no meaning to say it. I think we have to be courageous, there is a genocide in Darfur and we have to stand against this, we have to support these people. And since they are calling for a united Sudan, then I think we need to support them, we need to stand with them. "
Broadcast History
Posted to US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Web site on November 15, 2007 and is available on various Web-based distribution sites, namely iTunes.
Transcript
NOVEMBER 15, 2007, AMEL MEANS "HOPE"
JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is Dr. Mohammed-Ahmed Abdallah. He's a physician and the medical treatment director at the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture in Darfur. He's in the United States to receive the 2007 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Dr. Mohammed-Ahmed, welcome to the program.
MOHAMMED-AHMED ABDALLAH: Thank you very much.
JERRY FOWLER: I appreciate your taking the time to come speak with us. We've had several of your colleagues on the program before from the Amel Center, and so I think a lot of our listeners are familiar with a lot of the important work that the Amel Center is doing with victims of torture and victims of human rights abuses. I think the first question that I wanted to ask is just to have you step back and look at the situation as it exists today in Darfur and broadly tell us...
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