Dec. 14, 2009 issue
The least among us
By Abe Warkentin Steinbach, Man.Regarding the brief media accounts of the rapes, hanging and vigilante-style justice in Manitoba Colony, Bolivia, in the last few months: The silence from our Mennonite constituency is deafening, but this problem isn’t going to go away. Those horrific reports out of the Manitoba and neighboring Las Cruces colonies can only be interpreted as urgent cries for help. And in the long run we will be judged not on how wonderfully we sang at the Mennonite World Conference (and I applaud that!) but how we treated “the least” among us. In this decade for certain, and perhaps far longer than that, the least among us are the raped women and girls of Manitoba Colony.
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