By: Graham Fraser
Holocaust tribute to focus on Darfur
The phrase "never again," long applied to the commemoration of the Holocaust, is taking on new meaning.
Today, thousands of green ribbons will be given to federal and provincial legislators to be worn Tuesday to draw attention to massacres in Darfur.
"The Holocaust was to be the last genocide," Mark Weintraub, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress Darfur committee, told the Toronto Star. "The words 'never again' were meant to codify that the world is determined that there would never be another genocide."
For several years, Canadian parliamentarians have recognized April 25 as a day of commemoration of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust in Europe during World War II.
This year, the Canadian Jewish Congress is using the commemoration to draw attention to what is going on now in Darfur.
For three years, the Sudanese government and mostly Arab Janjaweed militias have been fighting rebels in Darfur, forcing millions of civilians to move.
Weintraub said 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur and untold numbers of women raped. "We have not been successful in caring enough to save the 400,000 - but it is not too late for the next 400,000."
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