Globe and Mail: Don't forget Darfur

April 13 2006
Letter to the editor

Don't forget Darfur

MARK WEINTRAUB
Chair, National Darfur Commitee, Canadian Jewish Congress

Toronto -- Both John Ibbitson's column (We Have A Duty To Debate Darfur -- April 7) and Norman Epstein's letter (Military Debate -- April 10) point out that the genocide taking place in Darfur has slipped under the Canadian radar. For the past two years, different advocacy organizations, including the Canadian Jewish Congress, have worked to keep this issue in the public eye.

The CJC's National Darfur Committee is asking parliamentarians in a number of legislatures to increase awareness of the plight suffered by the people of Sudan's Darfur region. We will be providing these parliamentarians with a green ribbon to wear in their legislatures on April 25, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Canada.

On the day we remember the horrific suffering and losses associated with the Holocaust, we must not forget those who are suffering in the tragedy unfolding in Darfur. The lessons and the legacy of the Shoah require no less from all of us.