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| Audrey Mogan, Aegis Students National Coordinator, speaking outside the Sudanese Embassy in London in the wake of the attacks on Kalma refugee camp. August 2008. | |
Aegis Students is affiliated to the genocide prevention charity, Aegis Trust.
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Values & Mission
"He who saves a single life, saves the world entire."
Talmud
"Whoever saves the life of a single human being, it is as if they saved the life of the whole of mankind."
Qur’an
The vision of Aegis Students is to create a world without genocide. Although it is an ambitious vision, through a multiplicity of smaller actions the movement is steadily working towards the achievement of this goal.
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Aegis Students is motivated by those who have experienced genocide and whose stories remind us of the humanity of the victims whom the perpetrators wished to dehumanise. We recognise that genocide begins with passive discrimination which leads to persecution and ends with death; and therefore we will fight for a proactive approach to preventing it.
We are inspired by the White Rose movement, a student resistance group in Nazi Germany, which became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign that called for active opposition to German dictator, Adolf Hitler's regime. Its six core members, including Hans and Sophie Scholl, were arrested by the Gestapo and executed in 1943. The content of their sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany, through Scandinavia, to England, and in July 1943 copies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes, re-titled "The Manifesto of the Students of Munich." Today, the members of the White Rose are honoured in Germany as great heroes who opposed the Third Reich in the face of deadly danger for such resistance.
Aegis Students honours the members of the White Rose by adopting the white rose as our symbol. We are inspired by their courage and heroism and we wish to emulate their challenge of society’s values of indifference to discrimination and genocide, whether at home or on the other side of the world.
"We will not be silent…The White Rose will not leave you in peace!"
Fourth White Rose Leaflet, 1942
Aegis Students’ mission rests on three pillars.
Campaigning: Aegis Students aims to mobilise grassroots political pressure to campaign to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Education & Awareness: Aegis Students aims to educate students about genocide in order to build a meaningful, long-term, anti-genocide constituency.
Fundraising: Aegis Students aims to raise funds for its own efforts and for the projects of Aegis Trust.
