Movie helps students learn how to ‘Coexist’

“The perpetrators and victims of the Rwandan genocide lingered in the mind of 13-year-old Irena Manukian as she fell asleep Monday night.

Earlier that day at school, Irena, an eighth-grader at Innovation Academy Charter School, and her classmates, had become among the first middle-school students in the state to view Coexist, a 40-minute documentary on the 100-day period in 1994 when a half-million people were slaughtered in Rwanda, an east African country the size of Massachusetts.

The film, directed by Adam Mazo, a former TV news producer at Boston’s Channel 7, shows interviews Mazo conducted with dozens of survivors of the genocide — admitted killers and victims — who the current Rwandan government has ordered to reconcile and coexist.”

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