Leading rabbis have called on politicians from all parties to help end the violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In a letter to the Times, senior figures from the Reform, Liberal and Masorti movements said the Congolese people had experienced “murder, rape, looting, mass-displacement and the violence associated with the illegal mining of ‘blood minerals’” on a daily basis.
More than six million people in the central African country had already lost their lives, they wrote.
“As rabbis, many of whom have relatives who perished in the Holocaust, we can neither stand idly by nor close our hearts to the pleas of the Congolese people,” the letter stated.
