Show Darfur Genocide Rochelle McConkie Special from the U of UT Chronicle Remnants of slaughtered people are shown as a reminder to what happened during Rwanda's civil war Rows of human skulls and heaps of bones filled the tarama Genocide Memorial in Uganda surrounded by the remnants of clothes ID cards and h homework assignments that commemorated the people slaughtered at the site For U student Sheldon Wardwell ll a junior in p political science the image i he saw in his trip to U Uganda gand in 2007 ha haS had and Rwanda resonate resonated d. d in m h. h his IS mm mind d going to t to When youre you're school working and living living life its it's easy to put this of like its it's nothing Wardwell said But when youve you've seen firsthand how they're ever every bit a person as you S Shard hard to let it go Wardwell will return to Africa in December a ato to interview refugees in eastern Chad Chada Chad t a research expedition to to document the impacts of the Sudanese genocide Wardwell will travel with Samuel Totten a genocide scholar at the University of of Arkansas Fayetteville to to create an oral history of th the conflict in Darfur for a book bool Totten is writing w The firsthand accounts of individuals will hopefullY contribute in some wa way way to people being active Wardwell said In 2004 Totten was wa was part of the person 24 State Stat Department team formed under the direction of them then Secretary of State Colin Powell to investigate th the situation in Darfur and declare it genocide Wardwell teamed up with Totten three years ago at a conference at the University of Colorado Boulder Totten later invited him t to Rwanda and Uganda to do research and offer services to the villages Totten said he let Wardwell accompany him to Africa because he knew he wasn't going as a tourist |