Physician/Activist Ashis Brahma to Speak About Darfur GenocideFebruary 12, 2009 at 7–9 p.m.

Dr. Ashis Brahma, doctor to Darfur refugees, will speak on the continuing genocide in Darfur, focusing on public policy, health and the refugee crisis. Dr. Brahma is a Dutch physician who has worked as the sole doctor at the Oure Cassoni camp in Chad caring for 27,000 Darfur refugees forced from their homes in Sudan.

More than 400,000 people in the Darfur region of Sudan have died due to the violence that began in 2003. Another 2 million have been forced into primitive refugee camps, like the one at Oure Cassoni, where starvation, malnutrition and disease are now creating 'genocide by attrition' and where deprivation and physical attacks, especially against women, are common.