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RWANDA : INTERNET RESOURCES

1. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ILUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE GENOCIDE http://www.amnesty-usa.org/country/rwanda/genocide/index.html This can be used as a "slide show" overview of the genocide. It is divided into the following sections:

A. Introduction F. Civil War
B. Colonization G. The Struggle for Peace
C. Independence H. Genocide
D. Hutu Rising I. Hutu Refugee Crisis
E. Tutsi Refugee Crisis J. Conclusion

2. THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL: HOW THE WEST IGNORED THE WARNINGS OF THE 1994 RWANDA GENOCIDE AND TURNED ITS BACK ON THE VICTIMS (FRONTLINE) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/ information about this site pdf file

3. RWANDA: MY TRIP TO THE UNDERWORLD, June 1997 By Rudy Brueggemann. http://www.rudyfoto.com/RwandaPage.html A good general introductory site - it includes articles, photos

4. "WHY THE RWANDAN WAR WAS NOT GENOCIDE" http://www.africa2000.com/indx/rwanda2.htm (but see RWANDA AND GENOCIDE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Alain Destexhe with a foreword by William Shawcross http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rwanda/reports/dsetexhe.html)

5. VALENTINA'S NIGHTMARE (FRONTLINE) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rwanda/

6. OFFICIAL SITE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA http://www.un.org/law/rwanda/

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OUSD Curriculum Unit
Genocide

Subject: History
Grade Level: 12th
Lesson Plan Author:
G. Danning