- Survivors of genocide speak for themselves in this short form documentary that explores the culture of cruelty that humanity has allowed to endure.
- They suffered starvation and deprivation. They lived in constant fear of being murdered. They endured the deaths of their children, parents, sisters, brothers. They-- are the survivors of genocide. In Faces of Genocide, these people speak for themselves--the mothers and fathers, the sons and daughters. They are not "the other"--they are "us". These are their stories.
"The systematic and deliberate destruction of a people based upon race, religion or social class" is called genocide. Throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries--from the Holocaust to the killing fields of Cambodia, from Bosnia to the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda, from Darfur to the Rohingya ethnic cleansing in Myanmar-- there has been a shameful succession of genocidal atrocities.
Faces of Genocide is about more than just a particular genocide or a specific country, but rather explores a culture of cruelty that humanity has allowed to endure. Through the unflinching and raw first person accounts of survivors, Faces of Genocide exposes the history of genocidal crime that continues to this day.
"It was something far beyond imagination. It was so overwhelming. So many people murdered...where could you begin crying and where could you stop. You could spend a lifetime crying for these kinds of atrocities".
After each genocide, humanity has exclaimed: "never again". By now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, we should have certified our commitment to that ideal. But time and time again the crime of genocide continues. "Never again" has become the world's most unfulfilled promise.
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