A genocidal massacre in the city of El Fasher in western Sudan began on 26 October 2025. Humanitarian experts consider it the worst war crime committed during the Sudanese civil war, characterized by mass atrocities and ethnic cleansing. Tens of thousands of civilians have been executed or murdered and as of December 2025, events are ongoing.

I have to admit I knew none of this. The Sudanese Student Association reached out to us for a possible collaboration just days before this massacre. When I attended their following teach-in, I was welcomed into a space of 18 and 19 year olds taking up the mantle of calmly explaining to outsiders like me the details of possibly the world’s most deadly on-going genocide that no one seems to be talking about; many of whom with family still in Sudan.

This pattern continued when I attended their subsequent rally at the Capital building, armed with a sound recorder. Dozens of community members attended, many as families, to stand up and declare that Sudan deserves to be free and their suffering cannot continue to be ignored.

This issue is those interviews.