ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, HOLOCAUST AND RWANDAN GENOCIDE TO BE INCLUDED IN GRADE 11 GENOCIDE CLASS IN CANADA
Noyan Tapan
Ju ne 16, 2008
TORONTO, JUNE 16, ARMENIAN TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. On June 12 evening
the Toronto District School Board unanimously approved the course
design for the Grade 11 genocide class, which will focus mainly on
three mass murders: the 1915 Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and
the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
A board superintendent, Nadine Segal, said other genocides, including
the current Darfur crisis, as well as the Ukrainian Holodomor famine,
will be touched upon in a broader, survey context. Students will have
the opportunity to choose other genocides for independent study.
The three atrocities studied in-depth will introduce the students
to the concept of genocides and crimes against humanity to give them
the tools to look critically at the world and its atrocities.
"There’s certainly no attempt to undermine anybody’s tragedy or to
suggest that anyone’s suffering is less important than anyone else’s,
by focusing on the three that we did," Segal said.
The class, which will be offered in 12 high school across the city
in September, is the first of its kind for the school board.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
