Londoners to walk barefoot for peace in support of Central African war victims
Last updated 10/27/2009 4:53:32 PM
Londoners at the recent Gulu peace walk organized by LRT
Saturday 24th October will see hundreds of like-minded Londoners silently crossing the city during the Barefoot Peace Walk organized by International Refugee Trust (IRT).
They will be united in peaceful protest against the violence being carried out by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Sudan, DR Congo and the Central African Republic.
Participants can choose to walk barefoot, to mirror a Sudanese event organized in September 2009 by Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of the diocese of Tombura-Yambio, which 20,000 people attended.
The event will begin in Sloane Square at 3.00pm and end in Trafalgar Square an hour later. After the event guest speakers at the Texas Embassy include Roeland Van de Geer, the EU Special Representative for the great lakes region.
IRT believe that the peaceful, silent walk is an effective way to convey the message of terrors suffered by the victims. “We feel that rather than being loud and shouting, the silence of our walk will be more powerful and respectful, a stark contrast to the LRA's methodology of brutal force and violence,” said IRT.