Introduction 

Representative Lulu Flores Introduction To This Program

 Senator John Cornyn 
Introduction To This Program

Background Information On Genocide and Educide

The history of the evolution of the word Educide. Last summer Rula Alousi gave a paper entitled," The Genocide of Education A case study on the impact of invasion, and conflict on education-Rula Alousi, Regent College London, UK ." Alousi applied educide to education as a result of the war in Iraq. Alousi explained that the word educide was first used by Pluto Press in Nov 2009. Here they questioned whether the systematic killing of Iraqi academics and the intellectual élite could constitute a case of educide.

However, today the meaning has changed completely. Today, educide was first proposed to be used in a new and different format by Michael Cunningham in his thesis for his Masters's Degree from AGBU Armenian Virtual College entitled: The United States Foreign Policy vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, Armenia and The Armenian Genocide(1915-1923): A Critical Analysis.
Instead of applying educide as the killing of academics- Cunningham created a new definition- educide was the rewriting of history or education. Hence this created a genocide of history or education itself in a real theoretical sense. Here, historians, politicians, and the media have changed how we are taught, what we are taught, why we are taught, and when we are taught. By changing these factors and controlling the process of history or the process of education- they are in effect creating educide- the genocide of education.

This according to Cunningham is one of the basic principles of genocide and the reason why genocides continue to this day. Cunningham's conclusion can be easily demonstrated by the famous poem First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller

First, they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

This poem perfectly explains how educide works. We are taught that there are no links behind certain acts and that all acts are independent. Without learning about the connectivity of the events we are soon shown much to our dismay that acts were accomplished and resulted in something that we never saw coming. Educide- the genocide of education. Let us not forget our history and the more we know now-the more we can fight educide later.