COVER STORT

"As Jews, we have an increased moral obligation to respond, to

speak out and take action against ethnic cleansing. The epithet

"

never again" must not be reserved for Jews alone.

),

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Ilearing S

Genocide in

SHARON LUCKERMAN

StairWriter

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s news of the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region spread

Africa stirs an

throughout the Western world over the past 18

months, local and national Jewish groups have shown

a particular interest in educating Americans and aiding the

outpouring of

situation.

"For the first time in its histor37, the United States Holocaust

Memorial Museum [in Washington, D.C.] declared a 'genocide

Jewish aid.

emergency' in the Sudan, indicating that genocide is imminent or

is actually happening in the Darfur region," Allan Gale, associate

director of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan

Detroit, reported in his weekly Israel Advocacy Network e-mail.

"To date, as . many as 50,000-100,000 Sudanese civilians have

been killed."

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Shallow graves relating to the genocide in the Sudan

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