Operation Broken Silence and the Sudan Sham Campaign Featured in The Daily Helmsman

Brian Wilson:

Led by four University of Memphis students, the anti-genocide group Operation Broken Silence was selected last week to represent Tennessee in a national campaign protesting U.S. funding of manipulated elections in Sudan.

The group began more than two years ago, aiming to provide ideas and policies to prevent widespread genocide in African conflict zones. Mark Hackett, founder of the local campaign, said the group will call on U.S. citizens to contact national and state representatives, and urge them to pull funding from “sham” elections in Sudan, where national elections were rigged to maintain the existing power structure.

“Normally, support groups in Nashville are chosen, but this time we in Memphis were selected to represent our state’s part in the national movement,” Hackett said. “We’ve been trying to get more Memphians involved and informed because of this.”

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