Debbie Bodkin has seen a lot of human misery in her job as a Sergeant with the Waterloo Regional Police Service. But nothing prepared her for what she saw and heard interviewing Darfur refugees in 2004 and 2005, as a volunteer for fact-finding missions by the U.S. and the United Nations

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Debbie Bodkin has been a Sergeant with the Waterloo Regional Police Service for 20 years. She has had 3 overseas experiences:

In 2000 with NATO and the United Nations in Kosovo where she functioned as a Scenes of Crime Officer working at body exhumation sites and in the morgue during autopsies.

In 2004 with the U.S. Organization, Coalition for Internal Justice in Chad where for two weeks she traveled to Refugee Camps and interviewed the victims who had fled from the atrocities occurring in their home country of Sudan. The results of these interviews were used by the U.S. State Dept. to declare what was happening in Darfur as a genocide.

In 2004/2005 with the United Nations Commission of Inquiry for Darfur in Sudan as an investigator. She lived in Darfur for three months, searching out victims, witnesses and suspects of the horrific crimes occurring and interviewing them in order to complete the report for the United Nations. The United Nations Commission report was released and stated that Crimes Against Humanity were happening in Darfur with some involvement by the government of Sudan.

Debbie now speaks regularly at various forums about her experience in Sudan and her hope of stopping the continuing plight of the people in Darfur.