A genocide is taking place in Africa. So far, an estimated 400,000 people have been murdered and an untold number of women and children in Darfur have been raped.
We are witnesses to the first genocide of the 21st century.
Please read the following article from The Jewish News Weekly.
Friday April 21, 2006
We cannot remember one genocide and ignore another
by gerri miller
As a child, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. How could the world stand by and allow a genocidal maniac to kill 6 million Jews … to decimate a people? Today, I ask myself the same question about Darfur and of a world that, again, is just standing by.
The Holocaust raises both political and moral issues. Looking back, many of us would like to think that we would not have stood by as innocent people were murdered. We believe that we would have stood up for the victims of the Holocaust. We tell ourselves we would not have been bystanders. We hope that we would have chosen, instead, to be witnesses.
The bystander is different from a witness. A bystander remains silent. He or she does nothing. The witness acts.
I urge you to be a witness. April 30 has been designated the Day of Conscience for Darfur.
Please sign the petition at the link below and pass it on to everyone you know.
It is imperative that we not stand by and allow this to happen again.
