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Shoah museum exhibit takes stance on Sudan
by WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum announced a genocide warning against Sudan, "The memory of the past is violated if we do not address the future," said committee chair Jerome Shestack.
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One haunting photograph shows the emaciated corpses of young children side by side in the back of a truck that is about to dump them into a mass grave in Bahr el Ghazal, a southern province.
Experts estimate 2 million people have perished during the past 17 years in Sudan, and another 4.5 to 5 million have been uprooted in the struggle.
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