Argentina issues textbook on Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Argentinean Ministry of Education unveiled on Tuesday, November 17 a textbook on the Armenian Genocide, Agencia Prensa Armenia reports

Titled “Armenian Genocide. Questions, answers and proposals for education,” the book includes teaching material produced as a result of cooperation with the Armenian National Committee of South America.

Education Minister Alberto Sileoni, Director of the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism Pedro Mouratian and Carolina Karagueuzian, Director of Armenian National Committee of Buenos Aires, as well as a number of Ministry officials attended the event.

Commenting on the difficulty of presenting a subject as complex as the Genocide, Sileoni noted: "It is not true that things we teach our children have to eliminate complexity. Children should know that all the stories do not have a happy ending like they do in the movies. They have it in a human, much deeper way."

Karagueuzian noted, in turn, that Argentina is the only country that "publishes and disseminates educational material on Armenian Genocide at the federal level."

"The material intends to address the genocide against the Armenians as one of the most atrocious events in the history of mankind, but also as one of the most important struggles against oblivion," said Karagueuzian.

During the presentation, a chapter of "Zamba," an educational children's show, was also unwrapped. “The amazing lesson of Zamba about Memory" tells the journey of Zamba, the protagonist, in various genocides of the twentieth century.