Special Plea to China, as Host of 2008 Olympics:
Bring the Olympic Dream to Darfur

Dream for Darfur has adapted the Olympic Torch Relay both to commemorate past victims of genocide and to call attention to the constructive role that China could play in the Darfur crisis. The symbolic Olympic Torch Relay is urging the Chinese government as both Olympic host and Sudan‘s strongest political and economic partner, to use its special influence with the Sudanese government to ensure a robust civilian protection force in form of a UNAMID mission in Darfur before the Games begin.

Germany is the fourth stop on an international symbolic Olympic Torch Relay that began in August near the Darfur border and continued to Kigali, Rwanda, and to Yerevan, Armenia in September.

Hosts:

Dream for Darfur, is a US based advocacy group that is organizing the Olympic Dream for Darfur torch relay. The Berlin torch lighting is being co-hosted with RettetDarfur.de, an initiative of Fairplanet and the Society for Threatened Peoples that seeks to inform the German-speaking public about the genocide and related violence and suffering in Darfur.

Speakers

> Mia Farrow, actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador who has travelled to the Darfur region 7 times
> Charlotte Knobloch, Central Council of Jews in Germany
> Michael Michalsky, fashion designer and RettetDarfur.de Ambassador
> Ahmed Musa, Sudanese, Spokesperson for Darfur Hilfe, e.V.
> Nikki Stone, US Olympic gold medalist in inverted aerial skiing at the 1998 Nagano Games
> Jill Savitt, Director of Dream for Darfur, which runs the Olympic Dream for Darfur campaign
> Ulrich Delius, representative from RettetDarfur.de, Africa expert of the Society for Threatened Peoples
> Saima Mirvic-Rogge, representative of genocide survivors from Bosnia-Herzegovina
> Yves Bobito Masanga, representative of Rwandan genocide survivors and the Rwandan Society
> Dr. Gerayer Koutcharian, descendent of an Armenian genocide survivor

> dreamfordarfur.org

> all petitions at rettetdarfur.de

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