KU students staged a Die for Life demonstration on the Strong Hall lawn to raise awareness of global humanitarian conflicts. The event was sponsored in part by the student group FIGHT (Fighting Ignorance of Global Humanitarian Threats) who hopes to raise student awareness of humanitarian conflicts and have them take action.

A group of Kansas University students lay on the ground before Strong Hall on Thursday in a demonstration to call attention to global humanitarian conflicts.

“There’s no way students can walk by something like this and not be forced to recognize that these conflicts are happening,” said Mark Skoglund, president of the newly-formed student group Fighting Ignorance of Global Humanitarian Threats, FIGHT.

Each student represented a number of people killed in crises around the world.

“I came out here to “die” today,” demonstrator Nathan George said. “It seems like a no-brainer to me. Any time you have an opportunity to stop another human being’s suffering, I think it’s immoral not to get involved.”

The demonstration, which lasted several hours, included student members of FIGHT, KU UNICEF, and KU for Uganda.