FRANCESCA ALBANESE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
She called herself a “reluctant chronicler of genocide.” The UN Special Rapporteur spoke at the University of Toronto tonight to an audience that was eager to listen to her exacting expertise and her indefatigable fight for justice. 500 people packed into the UofT auditorium with the line up skirting around the building. Francesca finished her speech tonight with a quote from Primo Levi, the Italian writer and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp.
"Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.”