GENOCIDE TEXT PULLED FROM HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST
Noyan Tapan
Ma y 19, 2008
TORONTO, MAY 19, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. A text about genocide
has been pulled from the recommended reading list of a new Toronto
public school course because of objections from the Turkish-Canadian
community, the author says. Barbara Coloroso’s Extraordinary Evil:
A Brief History of Genocide was originally part of a resource list for
the Grade 11 history course, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The
book examines the Holocaust, which exterminated six million Jews in
the Second World War; the Rwandan slaughter of nearly one million
Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and the massacres of more than a
million Armenians in 1895, 1909 and 1915. But a committee struck to
review the course decided in late April to remove the book because
"a concern was raised regarding its appropriateness". The Committee
determined this might be included in a course on the social psychology
of genocide because of her posited thesis that genocide is merely
"the extreme extension of bullying".
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