14 Apr 07 - Today survivors buried 1,454 victims of the Rwandan genocide in mass graves at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. The burials followed Rwanda’s official week of mourning marking the 13th anniversary of the 1994 genocide. Thousands of mourners marched in quiet procession from St. Famille Church and other areas of central Kigali to [...]
Nottingham Trent Aegis Society has been very active this term with many events either happening or being planned. We started the term with a ‘Pub quiz’ with the winning team collecting £50; we raised £80 in the process. In March arrangements were made to have a Darfuri guest speaker for the Awareness Day for Darfur [...]
It’s been another busy and exciting term for Oxford Aegis Society: We kicked it off with the Hands Up For Darfur Day (03/02/07) at the Oxford Union in conjunction with Hands Up For Darfur. The event included a screening of Shooting Dogs, informational stalls for groups working in Sudan (like Kids for Kids, Medecins Sans [...]
29 Mar 07 - Following removal by the Home Office to Khartoum on 5 February 2007, Sadiq Adam Osman – a survivor of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, who had previously been interviewed about his experiences by the Aegis Trust, and had taken part in demonstrations in London about the Darfur crisis – was brutally tortured [...]
March 9th 2007 will see a range of events taking place on campuses throughout the UK to raise awareness of the situation in Darfur and prompt students to take action. We have several universities on board with this but we want you to join us. Please get in touch to organise an event at your [...]
27 Feb 07 - The Aegis Trust welcomes the ICC's indictments today of Ahmad Harun, Sudan's State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and formerly State Minister of the Interior, and Ali Kushayb, one of the leaders of the Janjaweed, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. "The indictment of Harun is particularly significant since [...]
UK Holocaust Education needs Investment 16 Apr 07 - Serious concerns have been raised internationally about the state of Holocaust education in the UK in the wake of media stories following publication of a DfES-funded report, 'Teaching Emotive and Controversial History'. The report, published by the Historical Association, found that some teachers had dropped the [...]
14 Feb 07 – The Aegis Trust wholeheartedly supports its colleagues in France at the Collecif Urgence Darfour in the statement they have issued opposing the coming visit to France by Sudanese President Omar Bashir. The Urgence Darfour statement follows: Sudanese President Omar Bashir is not welcome in France The Council for General Affairs and [...]
7 Feb 07 - Professor Eric Markusen, one of the world’s most eminent genocide scholars, died of cancer on Monday 29 January. He was 60 years old. In recent years, Professor Markusen had worked closely with the Aegis Trust. He participated in the joint Aegis-Foreign and Commonwealth Office conference on genocide prevention in 2002, which [...]
Due to the posts on the Aegis Students Website Forum being made only by one member and over 800 active members being registered on our facebook forum instead, I presented to conference on the 11th January that that forum be closed and the official forum become our facebook forum. It was unanimously agreed that this [...]