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Schools Preparing For Mashirika Rwandan Youth Theatre Performances and Workshops

Ensure that your students have been introduced to the following:

1. The history of the Rwandan genocide and the issues involved:

Resources obtainable from the Aegis Trust

a) The Holocaust and Genocide: Why Does It Happen?

This interactive CD-ROM uses the enquiry approach and provides an excellent guide to the Holocaust and genocide, along with printable resources,containing research questions for students. It comes with a network licence and is designed to use the Holocaust as a starting point for looking at the issues of genocide. Students learn from their own research and discover, forinstance, how prevalent issues arising from genocide are in our world today. Challenging questions provoke classroom discussion.

b) Jenoside, a detailed guide to the Rwandan genocide: 54-page full-colour book providing teachers and students with pictorial evidence of the development of genocide in Rwanda.

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