The ninth annual Walk to End Genocide will be held today at Pan Pacific Park, raising funds for anti-genocide educational and advocacy efforts in the U.S. and to support projects aiding survivors of the conflicts in Sudan and Congo.
The walk in the Fairfax district is billed by organizers as the nation’s largest anti-genocide rally. More than 2,000 people participated in last year’s walk.
The walk coincides with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Both tragedies will be commemorated during the walk.
Registration will begin at 9 a.m., the walk program at 9:50 a.m. and the walk at 10:10 a.m. A post-walk program will be held from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
The walk is organized by Jewish World Watch, an Encino-based group founded in 2004 that has raised millions of dollars in an effort to improve the lives of survivors of genocide and mass atrocities in Congo and Sudan and educate communities across the U.S. to advocate for political change.
