SOUTHAMPTON'S leading churchman the Rev Ian Johnson ill be joining a leading expert on Jewish relations for the city's Holocaust Memorial Day lecture which is due to be staged at Southampton Institute next Tuesday.
The theme of this year's memorial day lecture is "the persistence of mass exterminatory violence in the world" and will focus on horrifying events in Rwanda in 1994 when up to a million people were killed in only a hundred days - often by their neighbours or friends.
Dr Mark Levene of the Parks Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the university of Southampton will be talking at the commemoration about the situation in the Congo since 1994.
His lecture will focus on why the butchery there has continued almost unreported since the terrible events a decade ago.
The lecture is open to the public and will be staged at the Sir James Matthews Building in Above Bar Street at 7.30pm. All are welcome to attend.
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