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Posted by Trainee in Yugoslavia , truth , the past , Stalinism , Soviet Union , Roma , reconciliation , propaganda , nazism , museums , identity , history , Germany , genocide , events , European Court of Human Rights , education , Eastern Europe , Council of Europe , commission , Central Europe , Balkans , Asia
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Source: Global Perspectives; April 7, 2010
STRASBOURG (IDN) - Gross human rights violations in the past continue to affect relations in today’s Europe. In some cases the right lessons have been learned; genuine knowledge of history has facilitated understanding, tolerance and trust between individuals and peoples. However, some serious atrocities are denied or trivialised, which has created new tensions.
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Source: HNN; 12 March, 2010
While on a trip to the east coast from my home in Berkeley I get the news that yet another Native American site on California's northwest coast has been vandalized. Between the 1780s - when Thomas Jefferson dug up a huge cemetery containing a thousand human remains - and the 1970s, when the Red Power movement began to put amateur and professional archaeologists on the defensive, the discovery and excavation of native skeletons was promoted as good sport, entrepreneurial initiative, and sound science.
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Posted by Trainee in training , teachers , students , schools , religious , religion , museums , multiculturalism , history education , education , culture
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Source: Clarionledger; March 8th 2010
When Chris Harth, director of global studies at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, attended a Chicago education conference three years ago, he met someone who told him about the International Museum of Muslim Cultures. It's an educational resource he didn't know existed. He was stunned to find out it was in Jackson. Now Harth is working with the museum to develop educational resources that can be used in Mississippi schools. And on Tuesday, the museum will present the first in a series of The Legacy of Timbuktu exhibition teacher-training workshops in Jackson.
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Source: Todays Zaman, March 2nd 2010
Nowadays my dream is to be able to pay a visit to the recently opened Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile. I am looking at the pictures from the museum and reading every piece of information that I can find about it. Most comments suggest that the museum, which is dedicated to the 31,000 murder, torture and kidnapping victims of the 1973-90 military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, will contribute much to Chilean society in both healing the wounds and also in teaching the value of democracy to the younger generation.
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Source: New York Times, 30 october, 2009
MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Friday warned that Russians have lost their sense of horror over Stalin’s purges, and called for the construction of museums and memorial centers devoted to the atrocities, as well as further efforts to unearth and identify the dead.
Mr. Medvedev made the comments on his video blog, on the occasion of a holiday devoted to the memory of victims of repression. He warned that revisionist historians risked glossing over the darker passages of the Soviet past, citing a poll that showed that 90 percent of young people can not name victims of the purges.
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