Tuesday, November 20, 2007
News Andrew Young will participate in panel on Rwanda genocide
Posted by Scott Freeman on Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:20 PM
The 1994 Rwanda genocide will be the focus of a Nov. 27 panel at Emory University that will feature former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young.
Young will be on a panel that also features James Kimonyo, Rwanda's ambassador to the United States, and Emory's Deborah Lipstadt. Also among the panelists will be University of North Dakota law professor Gregory Gordon, formerly at the Department of Justice Criminal Division's Office of Special Investigations, where he helped investigate and prosecute Rwandan war criminals.
The program is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Glenn Memorial Auditorium. Free tickets are available on campus at the Dobbs University Center information desk, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory School of Law, or at the GoodWorks International RSVP line at 404-527-8545.
The panel will discuss the genocide and its impact on Rwanda. An estimated 800,000 to 1 million people were killed by militia groups.
The country is home to Karisoke, the gorilla research center founded by Dian Fossey. Clair Richardson, president of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, noted last week that the country's academic community was targeted during the killing spree. "The National University of Rwanda lost 80 percent of its faculty in the genocide," she said.
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