500 LOS ANGELES STUDENTS LEARNED ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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May 26, 2011 | 02:56
Five hundred middle and high school students at the Ambassador School
of Global Leadership learned about the Armenian Genocide last week,
Asbarez newspaper writes.
A program and discussion was presented by The Genocide Education
Project, in partnership with the AGBU Young Professionals of Los
Angeles.
Suzanne Douzmanian, GenEd’s Southern California Regional Coordinator
led the discussion, which examined the political and historical context
of the Armenian Genocide, as part of the continuum of genocides of
the 20th century.
She also incorporated an examination of the historical journey of
her own grandparents, survivors of the Armenian Genocide, into the
presentation, the newspaper writes.
For many of the students, this was the first they had heard of the
Armenian Genocide. Although state law requires that the Armenian
Genocide be taught in California schools, many schools still do not
include this history in their curriculum, the article says.