Sunday, April 30, 2006

Holocaust On People's Minds At Darfur Rally

WASHINGTON

In the words of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, "for the sake of our humanity, save Darfur."

Wiesel was among the thousands who turned out in Washington Sunday to urge the Bush administration to help end the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.

The crowd chanted, "Not on our watch" as speakers took turns on the National Mall.

Wiesel said while families are being uprooted and starved and children tormented and slaughtered, the world is "indifferent to their plight."

He said he won't remain silent because "silence helps the killer, never his victims." Read more >>>

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