In response, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law has launched the Rwanda Commemoration Project: Genocide in Our Time, an international initiative that seeks to raise awareness of this anniversary and the important lessons of the tragic events in Rwanda. The Project’s approach is to encourage people both to look back at what led to the genocide in Rwanda and to look forward to prevent looming genocide around the world today. To that extent, the Center, with the cooperation of faculty and students, has produced an 8-page resource booklet to encourage law schools, universities, high schools, NGOs, community groups and religious organizations to plan programming to mark the 10th anniversary of these heinous acts. The booklet, hauntingly illustrated with drawings by child survivors of the Genocide, provides a short background of the Genocide and a range of ideas for commemorative actions, substantive programs and outreach activities. Also included are a short bibliography of books, articles, films and traveling photo exhibits, website links and a sample day of programming.

In addition to the resources available in the booklet, the Center’s website (www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center) has an expanded bibliography, an event planning worksheet, a sample press release and a variety of poems, readings and other materials to help make planning an activity as easy as possible.

Please join schools, community groups and individuals around the world to mark this important anniversary. While the United Nations has declared April 7, 2004 to be “International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda,” commemorative programs can be held at any time.

Electronic copies of the booklet can be downloaded from the Center’s website at www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center . Hard copies are available free of charge and can be requested by email at Rwanda@wcl.american.edu.

Dec 12, 2003
Photo Exhibition 'Tears in the Green'
Summarizing three years from the Genocide to the rebuilding of the new
Rwanda. Erez T Yanuv Barzilay, Shai Lah Productions. web site: httpwww.AidWithoutBorders.org

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Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project,
A traveling exhibition, is the result of continuing photographic workshops for children who live at the Imbabazi Orphanage in Gisenyi, Rwanda. Many of the children were orphaned by the 1994 genocide in their country. Provided with cameras and a chance to express themselves through photography, most doing so for the very first time, the children's work is visually stunning and informative, providing the viewer with a window into their lives.

As the tenth anniversary of the genocide approaches, the world will be remembering the atrocities that few acknowledged until nearly one million lives were lost. This exhibition provides the opportunity to reflect upon this tragedy by observing life today through the eyes of Rwanda's children.

To read about this project and to view the photographs & learn about the children, please refer to the web site:

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National Security Archives
This very important site contains indispensable original government documents outlining in great detail the US reaction to the genocide. http://www.www.nsarchive.org
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Also read - Published report and declassified documents on U.S. policy toward the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/index.html , 2001 William Ferroggiaro, Consulting Fellow National Security Archive way from reactive measures to policies of prevention.
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Mission - Amahoro means "Peace"
The Amahoro Foundation: http://www.www.amahoro.org was established to assist children in Rwanda. In particular, the Amahoro Foundation works to help orphans, advance education, and relieve poverty.

We also recognize that helping children is the most effective way of achieving social progress in the long term. We support initiatives emerging within local communities in Rwanda. Our central focus is on programs which directly involve children, their care-givers, and community leaders. Connecting People of Good Will is our motto.
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Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide
Organization of African Unity appointed an independent International Panel of Eminent Personalities to investigate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The report, "Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide", was issued in 2000.

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The Aegis Trust Genocide Prevention Initiative
The Aegis Trust runs a genocide prevention initiative that aims to promote a fundamental change in the response to genocidal situations, moving away from reactive measures to policies of prevention.
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Genocide Watch
Genocide Watch is an organization designed to coordinate the International Campaign to End Genocide, launched at the Hague in 1999. Its website contains details of this, along with links to all organizations supporting the campaign and a substantial number of documents on approaches to genocide and specific contemporary genocidal situations
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Prevent Genocide
Prevent Genocide International is an Internet-based network of anti-genocide activists. The site contains some useful information and reports.
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Report of  The  Independent  Inquiry Into the Actions of The United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda 
December 1999
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Testimony Before House Subcommittee on Africa
Howard Wolpe, Washington, DC, September 28, 1999
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PBS  Frontline
The Triumph of Evil
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