Sudanese Activists Walk From New York To D.C.

Two Sudanese activists completed a 250 mile walk Tuesday from the United Nations in New York to Washington, DC in an attempt to draw attention to human rights violations in Sudan.

Dr. Abdel Gabar Alam, President of the Darfur Human Rights Organization of the USA, and Simon Deng, a human rights activist and former slave, began the walk on September 15th.

“It is a walk that every single human being from Southern Sudan has walked from Southern Sudan to Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, to anywhere,” Deng said during briefing at the U.S. Capitol. “These people walk, running from the atrocities, from the genocide - that has claimed 3.5 million lives.”

Added Deng, “Let’s dismantle this ticking bomb before the bomb goes off. Because I don’t want any more millions of Sudanese to be punished again.”