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The Rwandan Genocide - A Survivor's Story (virtual option available)
In observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day in January, Providence Umugwaneza will discuss the 10 stages of genocide and the work she does as commissioner on the Texas Holocaust Genocide and Anti-Semitism Advisory Commission. She will discuss what led up to the 100 days of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the importance of community members standing up to do what is right.
The presenter will be in person. The audience can attend in person or online.
From April 7 to July 15, 1994, armed Hutu militias killed more than 800,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic minority as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa people. An estimated 75 percent of the Tutsi population died in the mass killings.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, each year on Jan. 27, commemorates the liberation of captives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which happened in 1945 near the end of World War II. The day is meant to honor the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the many other victims of Nazism as nations work to prevent future genocides. The day has been an official observance since 2005.
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Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2149771-0
