On Sunday, Chicago Bull and Sudan Native Luol Deng to Stand with Genocide Survivors, Chicago Athletes, Musicians and Lawmakers to Light Olympic Torch for Darfur
Friday October 19, 11:00 am ET
CHICAGO, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago Bulls Forward Luol Deng, a member of the Dinka Tribe of Southern Sudan who fled when he was 5 to escape civil war, will join other Sudanese refugees living in Illinois and survivors of the Holocaust and the genocides in Cambodia,
Bosnia, Armenia at an Olympic torch lighting ceremony Sunday in support of genocide victims in Darfur.
Chicago Bulls Forward Luol Deng
The Jesse White Tumblers
Musician Trevor Menear, performing his rendition of John Lennon's "John Sinclair" from his track on the "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur" CD
The Very Reverend Joy Rogers, Provost of St. James Cathedral
State Representative Greg Harris, a leader of legislative efforts to fight the genocide in Darfur
Ben Prochazka, Nike Antonakos and Steve Dishler of the Save Darfur Coalition
Dori Dinsmore, Amnesty International
Darfur Refugee Fatima Haroun, who will speak about rape as a weapon of war against women
Sam Harris, Holocaust Survivor
Aksamija Habiba, Bosnian community
Rafi Killian, Armenian Community
Leon Lim, Cambodian community
Mohamed Abdelrhman Kauda, Darfur Association of Illinois President and other Darfur refugees
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