Van Leer Jerusalem Institute The Open University of Israel


The Genocide in Rwanda -Ten Years After Ten years have gone by since the genocide in Rwanda where approximately one million human beings were murdered in the span of 100 days. The world merely stood by and observed from a distance. Within a very short time the Rwanda genocide was pushed to the brim of human consciousness. We wish to be counted among those who remember.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

Opening remarks and Chair: Dr. Yair Auron

Literary texts and testimonies of Rwanda survivors: Benny Hendel

"Tears in Green", a series of reports by Erez T. Yanuv which were
prepared during and following the Rwanda genocide (Spring 1994-
Summer 1997). Screening courtesy of the Israel News Company
(Channel 2 News).

Lectures:

Aviva Aviram, Haaretz newspaper
Annihilation in Rwanda: Racism, Images, and the Media

Dr. Yair Auron, Open University
Genocide in the Israeli Social Consciousness

Prof. Israel W. Charny, The Institute on Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem
From Auschwitz to Rwanda: The Social and Psychological Components of Genocide

Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 16:00-20:00
At the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem
Tel. 972-2-5605222

The conference will be broadcast live (in Hebrew)
on the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute website: www.vanleer.org.il