Genocide Is Everywhere

Why does Steven Spielberg say that the movie “Schindler’s List” was his “duty to make” (“Spielberg’s ‘List’ a Call to ‘Duty,’ ” March 7)? Does he realize the saturation level of the Jewish Holocaust in the media and elsewhere, the Holocaust Museum in L.A., the Holocaust Memorial in Washington, schoolchildren being taught about the Holocaust, plus other stories about it in the press and on television? This genocide of the Jews has been shoved into our faces ad nauseam.

What is sadly lacking is a similar telling of other equally horrifying genocides--the Armenian genocide, the starvation genocide of the Ukranians by the former Soviet Union, the genocide of the Cambodians.

Genocide is everywhere, and the spotlight should not be focused on the Jews alone. They have made their case. It is now the “duty” of Spielberg or other filmmakers to focus on the genocides of other similarly long-suffering ethnic peoples.

ALFONSO ESPINOZA

Montebello