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Yazidi refugees and IsraAID hold memorial ceremony on anniversary of start of genocide

IsraAID and over 1500 Yazidi refugees in Greece commemorated the beginning of the genocide against them at the hands of ISIS; IsraAID, which operates in refugee camps all over Europe, provides psychosocial assistance to refugees, and helps them gain valuable vocational skills. By Eitan Goldstein IsraAID staff joined 1500 Yazidi refugees as they lit candles and […]

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Yad Vashem Holocaust seminar helps Rwandans commemorate genocide

(JNS.org) The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and Israel’s Foreign Ministry held a seminar on the 1994 Rwanda genocide, whose anniversary took place earlier this week. Several Rwandan genocide survivors were part of delegations attending the seminar. In 1994 members of Rwanda’s majority ethnic Hutu government killed an estimated 500,000–1,000,000 ethnic Tutsi Rwandans […]

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In Rwanda, mourning the horrors of genocide, Netanyahu sets out a vision of how to prevent it

PM speaks out after visiting memorial in Kigali: Tackle incitement, take the death threats seriously, don’t rely on the international community, make sure you can defend yourself By Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel KIGALI, Rwanda – The similar experiences of the Jewish and Rwandan people, who both endured genocides in the 20th century, underline that incitement […]

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