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A child looks at the human remains of thousands of Tutsis, and some Hutus, who were massacred in and around the Nyamata Catholic church and in the surrounding Kanzenze community.

 


 

 

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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