Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
Jan 26 2007

Canadian groups demand deportation

Representatives of Canada’s Armenian, Sudanese, Rwandan and Roma
communities joined Jews in calling for the deportation of six
suspected Nazi war criminals.
Helmut Oberlander, Vladimir Katriuk, Wasyl Odynsky, Jacob Fast, Jura
Skomatchuk and Josef Furman – whose alleged activities range from
being an SS guard to involvement with an elite killing unit –
allegedly entered Canada by lying about their wartime pasts.

The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that the Armenian National
Committee of Canada, the Darfur Association of Canada, PAGE-Rwanda
and the Roma Community Centre will join the Canadian Jewish Congress
in a news conference Tuesday to press for their deportation. The
gathering will `make it clear this is not just a Jewish issue, that
this is an issue about multicultural Canada,’ said Bernie Farber,
chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress. `We cannot
even start to deal with the present and understand the impact in the
future in relation to war criminals being in our country until we at
least start dealing with the past.’