Darfur And Genocide

Published June 8, 2005

Responding to genocide in Darfur is hardly an issue that obliges Canadians to consider whether they are "imperialists," as Richard Gwynn suggests (Embassy, May 25). As a party to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Canada--as well as all current members of the UN Security Council--is contractually obliged to "prevent" genocide. The National Islamic Front regime...