Uppity-Negro.com

Either I'm not paying attention -- always a possibility -- or we haven't heard much about this in the U.S. since the event.

Making sure 14 women are not forgotten

Some ancient peoples believed names have power and as long as someone\x{2019}s name is remembered their spirit lives.

Rose DeShaw hopes to bring a multitude of voices together Friday to strengthen the memory of 14 young women gunned down in Montreal\x{2019}s Ecole Polytechnique 13 years ago.

[. . .] The Montreal Massacre was a hate crime that stunned Canadians preparing for the 1989 holiday season. Yet, few people outside Quebec can name even a few of the young engineering students who were murdered.

“The thing that’s important,” DeShaw said, “is that we don’t remember Marc Lepine.”

“The sooner we get rid of the idea we have to remember these killers and these score cards [of kills], the better. I don’t want to remember him.” she said. “He’s not going to be remembered by me.”

Those who will be remembered are: Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St.- Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz.

Google News listed 16 stories about the Montreal Massacre yesterday, mostly from Canada, with one from France and two from African sources, namely Republic of Botswana and AllAfrica.com.

If it's any consolation to our Canadian readers, most people here probably don't remember Lepine either.