Sub-Topics Rwanda Genocide World War II Holocaust Annan Seeks Commission on Genocide Prevention (Guardian Unlimited) "Warning massacres like those carried out in Rwanda and Bosnia could happen again, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday proposed an international committee to help prevent genocide." "More than a half a million people were slaughtered during the 1994 war in Rwanda. A year later in Bosnia, some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred in Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, during the Balkan wars." 1-04 Genocide (PBS Frontline) Describes the crime of genocide, the attempt to destroy an ethnic group. Genocide in the Dafur Region of Sudan (AmericanProgress.org) "Over the past months, the world has watched as the Darfur region of Sudan has rapidly evolved into the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Now the American public is starting to take notice. Papers across the nation are condemning the atrocities and calling for an end to U.S. apathy and inaction. The following is a sample of these editorials from around the country." 6-04 Rwanda Girl Who Refused to Die (PBS Frontline) Provides the story of one girl who survived a massacre. Starving in Sudan (BBC News) Provides powerful word pictures of the extreme suffering of women and children in Sudan. The suffering and starvation is being caused by warfare rather than by drought. 6-04

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