Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada
Jan 30 2007
News Media Advisory – Ethnic Canadian leaders to highlight issue of
war criminals in Canada
OTTAWA, Jan. 30 /CNW/ – Representatives of five Canadian ethnic
communities will come together Tuesday, January 30, 2007 in Ottawa to
draw attention to the continued presence in Canada of a number of
Nazi-era enablers and why Canada should not be a haven for those who
have committed crimes against humanity.
Journalists are invited to a News Conference on January 30 at the
Lord Elgin Hotel, 100 Elgin Street, Ottawa, at 11 a.m. in the Lady
Elgin Room.
Participating speakers represent communities that have suffered
genocides in their recent histories.
Speakers include:
– Bernie M. Farber – Canadian Jewish Congress
– Leo Adler – Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust
Studies
– Aris Babikian – Armenian National Committee of Canada
– Bakri Abdalla – Darfur Association of Canada
– Jean-Paul Nyilinkwaya – PAGE-Rwanda
– Miloslav Slavchev – Roma Community Centre
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For further information: David Eisenstadt, The Communications Group Inc.
for: Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, 1-800-267-4476
ext. 36, deisenstadt@tcgpr.com; Len Rudner, National Director of Community
Relations, Canadian Jewish Congress, (416) 631-5712, (Cell) (416) 666-1761,
lrudner@on.cjc.ca