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Student Kamara J. Speaks at the 1996 New York Benefit Dinner Kamara J. interprets Samuel Bak's painting The Family, on the cover of the guide Facing History and Ourselves prepared for the movie Schindler's list. Speaking at Facing History's 1996 New York benefit dinner, she seeks to understand how a person becomes a bystander who chooses not to see or not to act in the face of injustice. |
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on the Power of Freedom Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa chaired the TRC. In this video clip on the 1994 elections from A Force More Powerful: South Africa, Freedom in Our Lifetime, Tutu talks about the power of freedom. |
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Don Mattera on the Collective Responsibility of White South Africans In this video clip from Facing the Truth, with Bill Moyers, South African poet, journalist and peace activist Don Mattera discusses the collective attitude of avoiding responsibility he sees in white South Africans. |
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TRC -- Victims Confronting Perpetrator In this clip from Facing the Truth, with Bill Moyers, we watch an emotional dialogue between victims and the man who tortured them. |
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TRC -- The "Pebco Three" The "Pebco Three" were a trio of community grass roots leaders who were tortured and killed. In this video clip, we hear the testimonies of the killers and witness some reactions to that testimony. This clip is from Facing the Truth, with Bill Moyers. |
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Albie Sachs Talks about Revenge Albie Sachs, a white activist who opposed apartheid and was exiled from South Africa for 23 years, now serves as a judge on South Africa’s Constitutional Court. While in exile, Sachs survived an assasination attempt. In this clip from Facing the Truth, with Bill Moyers, Sachs talks about revenge. |
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SOAL Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film, entitled Our Community, students talk about the close bonds that were created as they learned each others culture and history. |
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PTL Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film, Umuryango Wacu (Our Community), some of the students reflect on the history of the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide, and what can be done to create a peaceful world. |
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Les Quatre Mousquetaires Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film, some of the students explore what comprises a community, what it mean to be a member of a community, and why civic participation matters. They ask “What will you do?” |
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Ingabo Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film some of the students share what they learned about the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide, and the importance of education as a preventative tool against crimes of mass violence such as genocide. |












