PBS's FRONTLINE
hosts screenings and panel discussions for the film
"Ghosts of Rwanda" in Boston (March 23)
and Washington DC (March 24). Media are invited to
attend.
A generation after the world proclaimed
it would never again tolerate genocide, the international
community stood by while extremist leaders of Rwanda's
Hutu majority hunted down and murdered 800,000 of
Rwanda's Tutsi minority. Please join us for a preview
screening and panel discussion marking the 10th anniversary
of the Rwandan genocide.
BOSTON EVENT
Tuesday, March 23, at 6 p.m.
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Excerpt screening: "Ghosts of Rwanda"
Panel:
l General Romeo Dallaire,
force commander, UNAMIR;
l Samantha Power, founding
executive director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy,
Harvard University, and author of A Problem from Hell:
America and the Age of Genocide;
l Greg Barker, producer
"Ghosts of Rwanda";
l Moderator Michael
Ignatieff, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights
Policy, Harvard University.
WASHINGTON, DC EVENT
Wednesday, March 24, at 7 p.m.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
Excerpt screening: "Ghosts of Rwanda"
Panel:
l Ambassador Prudence
Bushnell, former deputy assistant secretary for African
Affairs, US Department of State;
l Gregory Alex, former
United Nations aid worker in Kigali;
l Bonaventure Niyibizi,
genocide survivor;
l Greg Barker, producer,
"Ghosts of Rwanda."
These events are free,
but space is limited. Please call Christopher Kelly
at 617/300-5375 to reserve your seat by Monday, March
22.
"Ghosts of Rwanda" airs nationwide
on PBS April 1 (check local listings), and on Thursday,
April 8, at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26, Washington DC.
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