To the Editor,
Ever since the Federal government got involved, suddenly Asper’s dream for a human rights museum has been corrupted by various ethnic/religious groups vying for attention for whatever suffering they have undergone at the hands of others and expressing concerns their ethnic/religious forbearers are not tagged with any culpability.
There is an article in the Wpg Free Press that is more explicit as regards Ukranians feeling their suffering has not been given its proper due by the CMHR and noting Ukranian leaders are angry
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/discontent-remains-on-cmhr-holodomor-202065521.html
Just what Winnipeg needs. Another fight over ethnic/religious sensibilities that undermines the effort to create a good thing.
As regards the Holocaust, Ukranians played a big role as did other European and east European nations in aiding the Nazis extermination of Jews. That as you say is a fact written in blood. It would be an affront to history to ignore these facts just to spare the feelings of those who have apparently not come to grips with their own culpability and guilt.
I do not recall if Ukranians following WWII ever acknowledged their complicity in the Holocaust. Has the Winnipeg Ukranian community ever done so?
I do hope the CMHR stands firm against the Ukranians demanding that their complicity in the Holocaust be whitewashed away.
Bill Narvey