Executive Director Mohamed Yahya spoke at the Annual Holocaust Commemoration at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD

Rockville, MD
April 21, 2009

The Commemoration was held on Yom Hashoah, the Day of Remembrance of the six-million who died, and paid tribute to victims as well as to survivors who convey tremendous courage in remembering and in helping us to remember.

Mohamed Yahya, a refugee from the Darfur region of Sudan and founder and executive director of the Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy, walso spoke. Yahya was part of the first human rights group to alert the international community to human rights. (http://www.rockvilleliving.com/calendar/detail/3024)

Additional press releases:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/04082009/aspenew210803_32473.shtml

http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/news/News_Archives/news04070901.html