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MAUS by Art Spiegelman: Genocide

A common book for Grades 8, 9 and 10 from May 2 to May 16, 2022

Source: https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages

Rwandan Genocide (1994)

"Beginning in 1994 and lasting only 100 days, the Rwandan Genocide is one of the most notorious modern genocides. During this 100 day period between April and July 1994, nearly one million ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed as the international community and UN peacekeepers stood by."

Read more about the Rwandan Genocide on the University of Minnesota's Holocaust and Genocide Studies Rwanda page.


Read the article, "28 years after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, ‘stain of shame endures’."

UNICEF/UNI55086/Press: A 14-year-old Rwandan boy from the town of Nyamata, photographed in June 1994, survived the genocidal massacre by hiding under corpses for two days.

The UN paid tribute on Thursday to the one million people who were murdered in 100 days during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, during which moderate Hutu, Twa and others who opposed the genocide, were also killed.  Read more here.


The World Without Genocide Institute at the Mitchell Hamlin School of Law also has a detailed but accessible page on the atrocities of the Rwandan genocide including information about who was involved, inciting incidents, the aftermath and details from The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.