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Students from Texas have helped awareness of a terrible . The seventh- and eighth-grade students from the Lorene Rogers Middle School have been campaigning on Twitter April 6th for people to remember the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Their “teensMAD4Rwanda” project to generate a million Twitter messages (tweets) in 100 days - ‘MAD’ means ‘ a difference’. They won advertising in the 'USA Today' newspaper for their . Teacher Tara Gipson said their was “to stop the from occurring again through understanding and ”

The class had with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and met many of the Rwandan genocide. Up to a million people their lives in the . This was about 20 per cent of the population. The killing happened because of between two ethnic in Rwanda – the Hutus and Tutsis. The Hutus the Tutsis wanted to enslave them so they called for the of all Tutsis. The world looked on at the for three months and did nothing. The Texas students’ million tweets the million deaths.

News English Lessons ESL / EFL Lesson Activity on Rwanda Genocide

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ESL / EFL Lesson Activity on Rwanda Genocide