The Journey Towards Peace and Reconciliation
2008-12-R14
The attached 13-minute video describes the powerful and deep emotional impacts
experienced by a Canadian teacher who participated in the 2008 "Peace and
Reconciliation Study Tour to China" (also known as "China Study Tour"**).
The trip provided her an opportunity to meet victims of
sexual slavery, military slavery, germ warfare, and the Nanking Massacre.
Meeting these former victims humanized the war and strengthened her
conviction that the millions of innocent victims should not just become
casualties of history and that their story must be told. She cried tears
of joy in seeing their survival, and tears of amazement at their courage to
break their silence and retell their painful stories. She also asked
herself whether she would have the courage to perform acts of self-sacrifice to be a humanitarian to save
thousands from becoming victims as were done so many brave people, including
foreigners such as the German businessman John Rabe and the American
missionary Minnie Vautrin.
The trip also made her realize the strength and resiliency of the human
spirit, and that we should not be looking at things that divide us, but at
what we can accomplish when we put our differences aside and work together. She said that this trip
far exceeded her expectations, and it will definitely benefit her as a teacher, but
more importantly benefit the students in her classrooms.
This video was made by Amy Chan, the script writer and narrator, and Bang Ho, the film
producer, both from Canada. I want to express my thanks to them for giving
me permission to
include their video in this website.
Because the size of the video file is very large, it may take a few
minutes to access the video. We are providing two different sizes of the video.
The first one is 51 MB and can be accessed faster (relatively speaking).
The second one is 177 MB, and takes longer to access but has higher video
quality.
The Journey Towards Peace & Reconciliation - Xvid 360x240 [51 MB]
The Journey Towards Peace & Reconciliation - Xvid 720x478 [177 MB]
To be able to view this video, you need to have the Xvid codec installed, which
you can get a free download by clicking on this link: free download.
I want to thank Eric Tow for converting the original video to Xvid format so
that I can include the video in my website. If you have problem accessing this video, please send me an email at
[email protected].
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** For more information on the "China Study Tour," see,
e.g., the website of NJ-ALPHA (NJ-Alliance for Learning and Preserving the
History of WWII in Asia):
http://www.nj-alpha.org/.
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