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Documentary Screening of Watchers of the Sky


Date & time
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Jean-François Bissière-Wallot

Cost

This event is free

Contact

Marie Lamensch
514-848-2424 ext. 5729

Where

McConnell Library Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
De Seve Cinema

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

"Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of a single individual?"

Haunted by this question, Raphael Lemkin dedicated his life to ensuring that mass atrocities would be punishable by law. Join us for a special screening of Watchers of the Sky, an eye-opening documentary on the fight against genocide, followed by a presentation by Jean-François Bissière-Wallot, Genocide Watch.

Register today!

About the documentary

Watchers of the Sky interweaves four stories of remarkable courage, compassion, and determination, while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin - the man who created the word "genocide," and believed the law could protect the world from mass atrocities. Inspired by Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Problem From Hell, Watchers of the Sky takes takes you on a provocative journey from Nuremberg to The Hague, from Bosnia to Darfur, from criminality to justice, and from apathy to action.

This event is organised on the Anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes of Genocides by the United Nations by the Alliance for Genocide Awarness and Remembrance composed of the Comité National Arménien du Québec, Page Rwanda, le Comité ukrainien anti-diffamation et pour l'information, le Centre Khemara and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. In Partnership with MIGS.

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