Embassy visitors mourning Sudanese leader reminded of deaths in Darfur
Submitted on August 3, 2005 - 12:00am.
Adrien M. Martin - Summer 2005
WASHINGTON – Mary Brooner, 56, tried not to look at protesters raising signs picturing mangled bodies of children as she ascended the steps of the Sudanese embassy Tuesday morning.
“It is easy to ignore the tragedies that go on in Darfur,” she mumbled, just before entering the building. She said that on any other day she would have stopped to listen.
But she had come to pay her respects to an old college friend, the vice president of Sudan who died in a helicopter crash over the weekend. Her pen was the first to mark the condolence book resting on a table in the embassy lobby.
“It is easy to ignore the tragedies that go on in Darfur,” she mumbled, just before entering the building. She said that on any other day she would have stopped to listen.
But she had come to pay her respects to an old college friend, the vice president of Sudan who died in a helicopter crash over the weekend. Her pen was the first to mark the condolence book resting on a table in the embassy lobby.
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