Re: Jan. 9, Museum stirs up controversy
Construction has begun on the $300 million Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
Opening in 2013, this very necessary museum will depict “the abuses, atrocities and genocides” that are a real part of the sordid history of mankind. It will not be a pretty picture.
In the Advocate article there is mention of “the Ukrainian famine in 1932-33 in which millions starved to death because of Soviet farm policies and food seizures.” There is also mention of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the Canadian internment camps for people of German, Ukrainian, Japanese and other heritages during the World Wars.
The museum plans to depict the savage side of colonialism toward indigenous peoples, including our aboriginals in North America.
Hopefully, the museum will have the courage to show the ugly side of slavery in the U.S.A., where black people were bought and sold because they were “not human.”
Even worse is the present-day genocide of unborn children, millions, who are considered “not human.”
Will the museum have the courage and honesty to display the grisly details of modern abortion? I doubt it and the Pro-Life folks will be watching.
Jim Swan
Red Deer