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New Potential for Remembering Bangladeshi Genocide: Government Allots Land for Liberation War Museum
MEMORY ISSUES IN THE NEWS
Cambodian Museum on Khmer Rouge
Regime Flounders for Lack of Funding
The Growing Phenomenon and Problems of
"Dark Tourism"
Russia Veils Some Pasts and Promotes Others
FEATURED PROGRAMMES
New Programmes from the Sites of Conscience Project Support Fund:
Justice for Democracy: Breaking Down Impunity in Argentina and Chile - Santiago, Chile
Celebrating International Non-Violence Day - Dhaka, Bangladesh
Youth Participate in Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking - Memphis, USA
How Can You Be an Agent for Change? - New York, USA
New Education Centre in Former Prayer House at Terezín Memorial - Terezín, Czech Republic
EXCHANGING SITES OF CONSCIENCE
PRACTICES: CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Immigration Sites of Conscience - New York, Chicago and San Francisco, USA
African Sites of Conscience - Johannesburg, South Africa
Asian Sites of Conscience - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
"Archives and Human Rights: Current Uses, Possibilities and Limitations" Workshop - Rosario, Argentina
American Indian Sites of Conscience, Boarding and Residential Schools - Lawrence, Kansas, USA
RESOURCES AND PUBLICATIONS
Project Support Fund - Call for Project Descriptions 2009: Connecting Past and Present
"Memorialization and Democracy": Report Available in Spanish
New "Activities" section of www.sitesofconscience.org
NEW INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
Cambodian American Heritage Museum (Chicago, USA)
Campaign for Good Governance (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
The Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities (Oslo, Norway)
Duke Human Rights Center (Durham, USA)
Navayana (New Delhi, India)
South End Museum (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)
The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island (New York, USA)
Trevor Huddleston CR Memorial Centre (Sophiatown, South Africa)
The Growing Phenomenon and Problems of "Dark Tourism"
From New York's ground zero to the Killing Fields of Cambodia,
historic sites associated with death and suffering are attracting more
visitors each year. This growing trend, characterized by some as "dark
tourism," can draw more attention to the sites and their histories, but
if not handled carefully, can lead to types of commercial exploitation
that strip these places of their emotional and historic meaning. What
does this phenomenon suggest for Sites of Conscience?
Not all Sites of Conscience remember mass atrocity; but even those that
do contain stories of resistance and courage that are equally important
to remember. How can we harness the power of tragic places to inspire
people to develop creative and hopeful ways of shaping the future?
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Russia Veils Some Pasts and Promotes Others
One of the key battlefields of Russia's struggle for democracy remains
the conflict over the memory of its Soviet past. Tensions on that
battlefield are heating up, as historians such as those working at the
Museum of History of Political Repression Tomsk NKVD Prison (an Institutional Member
of the Coalition), face increasing challenges obtaining access to
records from the Stalinist era. The Putin government has stepped up its
efforts to curtail access to archives because, the New York Times
reports, they "…show more profoundly the mechanisms of power, the
mechanisms of decision-making, the consequences of these decisions,
which were very often tragic for society."
The battle is also being waged over symbols of history in the Russian
landscape, such as over a proposal to reinstate the statue of Felix
Dzerzhinsky in front of the Secret Service headquarters in central
Moscow. Dzerzhinsky was the founder of the Cheka, the forerunner to the
infamous Secret Service agency KGB. In 1991, his statue was removed as
a symbol of the uprooting of communism. Today, lawmakers responsible
for approving the proposal to reinstate the statue appear split over
whether the move is meant to honour Dzerzhinsky, or to serve as a
warning that the past that must not be repeated. Moreover, a
commemorative stone from a GULAG labour camp currently occupies the
same place where the Dzerzhinsky statue once stood, and would have to
be moved to make room for the statue if it is re-erected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/world/europe/27archives.html?_r=2
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/features/article_1432435.php/Russian_Orthodox_Church_protests_monument_to_KGB_founder__Feature__
The Coalition's "Sites of Conscience Project Support Fund" provides both financial and technical support for member sites to develop projects that use their histories to open dialogue on a pressing concern facing their communities today. Below is a list of projects the Fund is supporting from November 2008 to October 2009.
"Memoria Barrial" (Neighbourhood Memory) Documentary Film - Mendoza,
Argentina
La Biblioteca Popular "Casa por la Memoria y la Cultura Popular" ("House for
Memory and Popular Culture" Public Library) develops educational materials,
particularly about the recent military dictatorship of Jorge Videla, also
referred to as the "The Dirty War", and uses them as the basis for dialogues
they run for students of different ages in schools and community centres.
"Memorial Barrial" will be a documentary film about the local experience of
State terrorism. To date, La Biblioteca has had to rely on materials about how
the dictatorships developed and operated in Buenos Aires or on a provincial or national
level. Yet many of those involved in the militancy of the era continue to live
in their same houses in the neighbourhood. This has allowed the local community
to define State terrorism as something external, in which none of them were
implicated; it means that local people's unique experiences have not been made
public, and finally, that local people have not been involved in remembering
and confronting their own experiences.
The documentary will feature the stories of five members of the militant group
Peronist Youth, together with those of local residents. To help local
communities understand how State terrorism grew and developed in Mendoza, the
documentary aims to reconstruct the life and death of Hector "Flaco" Pringles,
a local Peronist Youth leader killed by paramilitaries in November, 1975;
reconstruct the life and spirit of local popular and youth militancy of the
era; and explore the actions of local paramilitary groups and their
relationship to the state.
The documentary will be used as the basis for local dialogues on the local
legacies of the dictatorship and how to address them, through La Biblioteca's
ongoing course, "Making History: Identity and Memory," which it uses in
workshops with Quechua and Mapuche language groups, at-risk youth, and in
schools and community centres.
How Can Sites of Conscience Help Build Democracy after Conflict? - Monrovia, Liberia
Civic Initiative (CI) is a Liberian civil society organization whose focal
areas in the pursuit of democracy as well as the rule of law are Transitional
Justice (TJ) and Security Sector Reform (SSR).
Last year, Civic Initiative invited the Coalition
to conduct a series of workshops, individual meetings, media trainings, and
pilot public dialogues to identify how places of memory could serve as new
spaces for Liberians to address the legacies of the country's recent conflicts.
Participants stressed the need for community spaces to support and expand the Liberian
Truth and Reconciliation Commission's process, spaces where a broader base
of people, for a longer period of time, could confront the past and have
ongoing dialogues on how to move forward. As a result, CI formed a Memory
Resource Group within the Civil Society Advisory Committee to the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and identified three sites to develop into Sites
of Conscience.
The TRC is beginning to develop its
recommendations, due to be completed in 2009. With help from the Sites of
Conscience Project Support Fund, CI is conducting a series of dialogues from
November 2008-February 2009 in urban and rural communities across the country
to identify what sites people would like to see remembered in their local
communities; what kind of ongoing dialogues and activities they would like to
see at those sites that would help those communities move forward and build
lasting cultures of peace in the wake of conflict; and what support they need
in order to develop them. These conversations will be developed into a set of
concrete recommendations to the TRC. With the
Coalition's support, CI seeks to organize a conference involving all the
community members who were consulted in the dialogue process, Truth
Commissioners, journalists, and other stakeholders to formally present the
recommendations and have them adopted by the TRC.
"Memory on Air": Radio Discussion of Sites of Conscience and their
Contemporary Issues - Marzabotto, Italy
Monte
Sole Peace School works to preserve the memories of one of the biggest
Nazi-Fascist massacres in Italy during World War II. On the site where 770
people were killed by Nazi SS troops, it organizes education programmes and
summer youth camps that examine the context that made that system of terror
possible, both in Monte Sole and in other places. Engaging young people in
dialogue and promoting non-violent transformation of conflicts, respect for
human rights and peaceful coexistence among different people and cultures, Monte Sole
Peace School
offers new perspective and engagement in the development of the proposed
European constitution.
With help from the Sites of Conscience Project Support Fund, in November Monte
Sole launched a new series titled "Memory
on Air" on a call-in radio programme popular with young people. The series
features interviews with Coalition
members and Trustees
telling the stories of Sites
of Conscience around the world and raising questions about the implications
of their histories for issues young Italians face today. The series includes
about a dozen one-hour episodes, each focusing on the story of a different Site
and a different contemporary question. After interviewing the Site director
about the Site's history and the contemporary questions it raises, the radio
show's host invites young people to call in or send SMS/text comments on those
questions, or additional questions of their own. Featured Sites include the
Gulag Museum at Perm-36 in Russia, Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi in Chile, the Japanese
American National Museum in Los Angeles, and others. Listen to the recent
episodes of the show (in Italian only) here: http://www.montesole.org/memory.html.
On September 30, Memoria Abierta, Regional Coordinator of South
American Sites of Conscience, organized "Justicia para la Democracia: El
quiebre de la Impunidad en Argentina y Chile"(Justice
for Democracy: Breaking Down Impunity in Argentina and Chile), a panel
discussion on the current status of trials relating to crimes committed during
Argentina's and Chile's military dictatorships.
Memoria Abierta is a coordinated action of Argentine human rights
organizations. It aims to preserve the memory of what occurred during the
period of State terrorism in Argentina
and promote knowledge and social awareness of State terrorism and its effects
throughout society. Memoria Abierta, in cooperation with Chilean Site of
Conscience Corporación
Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi, the Argentinean Embassy in Chile, the
National Library of Santiago, and the Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y
Museos in Chile, created a space for debate about the value of and prospects
for judiciary action in both countries, through the "Justice for Democracy"
panel. Argentina and Chile have
alternated between periods of impunity for perpetrators and lack of
institutional accountability, and stages where it was possible to move forward
with the prosecution of perpetrators because of efforts from civil society or
the State. Prosecuting those responsible for human rights violations today
creates new momentum for justice and reparations, and plays a key role in
transmitting history, thus providing critical context to contemporary struggles
faced by new generations.
The panel and public discussion was built around the exhibit "Imágenes Para la
Memoria" (Images
for Memory) which opened in Santiago,
Chile for the
first time. First launched in 2006, the exhibit has travelled across Argentina,
reaching more than 45,000 people. "Images for Memory" publicly shares
testimonies, press materials, photographs and other relevant documents to shed
light on and facilitate dialogue about the events of 30 years ago and their
lingering effects in the present. The exhibit trains young guides to help bring
the documents to life and transform them into opportunities for
inter-generational, historical and contemporary discussion. Together, the
exhibit and the panel provoked new dialogue on the legacies and impact of State
terrorism for people today.
Participants in the discussion included law and social science students,
members of the human rights community, and the general public. Watch a video of
the discussion at http://www.memoriaabierta.org.ar/materiales/videos/panel.swf.
Celebrating International Day
of Non-Violence - Dhaka, Bangladesh
(October 2008)
On October 31, the Liberation
War Museum in Bangladesh commemorated International Day of Non-Violence
with a public programme using the life history of Mahatma Gandhi to inspire new
visions for confronting conflict today.
The Liberation War Museum remembers the 1971 struggle for Bangladesh's
independence and in particular, the genocide of more than 3 million
Bengalis.
But it uses the memory of this violent history as a foundation to
promote the
ideals of peace and non-violence today. The Museum works with sites
throughout South Asia to use histories of both conflict and harmony
to model ethnic and religious pluralism and inspire young people to
become
actively engaged in promoting those values. For example, the Museum's
annual Youth
Camp on Non-Violence and Tolerance, held at the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram, India, brings
together youth from throughout the region to develop strategies for using sites
of memory to address conflict in their communities.
As part of the Museum's programme for International Day of Non-Violence, Dr. J
B Roy, a political prisoner at Presidency Jail, Kolkata, India
during the anti-colonial movement, who met Gandhi when he visited the Jail in
1936, shared his perspective on the importance of non-violence in the Indian
movement for independence from the British. Following Dr. Roy's testimony, a
group of young Bangladeshis who had participated in the Youth Camp on
Non-violence and Tolerance held a dialogue on conflict and peace today. The
participants presented viewpoints of different sections of society such as the
role of political parties, fundamentalism, minority groups, bureaucrats and
media in building democracy today. The programme was attended by about 150
young people from different educational institutes.
Close to five hundred adults
and high school youth came together in Memphis,
Tennessee to participate in the
fifth annual Gandhi-King
Conference on Peacemaking. Organized by the National
Civil Rights Museum, Mid-South
Peace and Justice Center, and several other local grassroots organizations,
the conference sought to explore how we fulfil Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
call to "build a world house." Over the course of two days, participants heard plenary speakers such as hip hop activist Rev. Lennox Yearwood, civil rights veteran Ruby Nell Sales, peace activist Fr. Roy Bourgeouis, peace academic Michael Nagler, and independent journalist Amy Goodman. They also participated in a variety of workshops, film presentations, paper presentations, and panel discussions.
Over the past five years, the conference has created a space
for community activists, academics, and more recently, local high school
students to come together to share their experiences, knowledge, and desire for
a more non-violent world. The conference seeks to provide concrete tools that
can be used every day to live up to the examples and philosophies of Mahatma
Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Cross-generational dialogue and
interaction has become an important element of this conference, particularly
giving youth an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with seasoned peace and
grassroots activists to understand the possibilities for individuals and
communities to make change in the world. For more information, videos and how
to attend the conference next year, please visit www.gandhikingconference.org.
How Can You Be an Agent for Change? - New York, USA
(November 2008)
The heart of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is its landmark tenement
building, home to 7,000 people from over 20 nations from 1863 to 1935.
Following tours of the carefully restored apartments of the families who once
lived at 97 Orchard Street,
visitors can participate in "Kitchen Conversations", a programme where they
share common experiences and discuss current topics stemming from their tour
experience. "Kitchen Conversations" provides a space to freely express, without
judgment, opinions on pressing contemporary issues.
This November, the Museum launched "Agents for Change", a publication highlighting the accomplishments of historic and contemporary individuals who took action to make a difference in their communities. Designed as a six-brochure series and an interactive feature on the Tenement Museum's website, each biography features open-ended questions geared toward heightening visitors' awareness of the ways they can shape contemporary immigration issues. "Agents for Change" features change agents like:
Like other Sites of Conscience, the Museum seeks to promote civic engagement by presenting multiple perspectives: "Agents for Change" does not prescribe any particular course of action, but presents a variety of models for making change. By introducing the "Agents for Change" stories at the end of each "Kitchen Conversation", the Museum encourages participants to consider the role they can play in shaping issues today. "Agents for Change" online takes the mission of the Museum beyond the walls of its building into schools and homes where young children can be inspired to make a difference in people's lives. For more information, please visit: http://www.tenement.org/agents-for-change/.
New Education Centre in Former
Prayer House at Terezín Memorial -Terezín,
Czech Republic
(Fall 2008)
The Terezín Memorial remembers the suffering and resistance of displaced Jews
during the Nazi occupation and uses the memory of the criminal plans of Nazism
to promote engagement in the fight against the re-emergence of extreme
rightist, neo-Nazi and nationalistic groups.
In 2007, the Terezín
Memorial acquired a house at 17
Dlouhá Street in the former Terezín ghetto. This
building memorializes an important part of people's everyday lives during the
Holocaust as it includes a Jewish prayer hall established by the Jewish
prisoners in the ghetto. In 2008, Terezín Memorial restored the house at 17 Dlouhá Street,
creating a new educational centre in the house. Alongside education programmes
based in the history of the site, Terezín Memorial is expanding its education
facilities to include multimedia technology. But Terezín Memorial recognizes
the possible problems of the internet as an information medium, especially for
Holocaust studies, since the internet is full of both rich resources and
misinformation about the past. A key component of its new programming will be a
workshop on Holocaust denial that highlights the dangers of new information
technologies and raises questions to inspire participants to think critically
about how best to use the internet.
From August 8 to 13, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
welcomed museum leaders from across the United States and Belgium at
the Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in New
York to launch the Coalition's new Immigration Sites of Conscience Network. Participants represented 14 museums and
historic sites remembering diverse immigration histories in different
local contexts, committed to opening new public conversations on the
current immigration debate in the United States and Europe. During a
week-long seminar, museums from San Diego to Charlotte, visited by a
total of 4.5 million people each year, each designed a programme that
used their community's immigration history to provide new perspective
on a key immigration conflict or tension—resulting in 14 new public
dialogues and spaces for action in 14 communities across the United
States and in Belgium.
The African Sites of Conscience Network,
which focuses on "Using Histories of Citizen Action to Develop
Post-Colonial and Post-Conflict Democracies" met from August 12 to 14
at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, South Africa. The meeting brought
together 16 delegates from South Africa, Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia,
and Senegal under the theme "Promoting Citizenship and Human Rights
through Sites of Conscience." The theme was especially salient as the
meeting marked South Africa's commemoration of National Women's Day and
also took place during a period in which South Africa was grappling
with questions of citizenship following the recent spate of xenophobic
attacks on immigrants. 
The workshop offered participants models of programmes that used
places remembering the Apartheid struggle to inspire active citizenship
for human rights today. For example, participants observed education
programmes at Site of Conscience Constitution Hill
on the historic role of women in the struggle for freedom in South
Africa and the gains and challenges that women face today as citizens.
The programme included discussions with in-school female learners
around some of these issues and how they related specifically to the
South African constitution, as well as some of the lived realities of
being women in a fledgling democracy. In addition, participants
observed a programme at the Hector Pietersen Museum in Soweto, which
marks the 1976 youth uprising against Apartheid education. The visit
included a youth group presenting clips from a documentary they created
about the recent xenophobic attacks.
Using these programme models as inspiration, participants developed
frameworks for dialogue programmes at their own sites, deciding to
focus on two critical themes for the region: slavery and post-conflict
democracy building.
Asian Sites of Conscience - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
(August 2008)
From August 25 - 27, the Liberation War Museum, Regional Coordinator of Sites of Conscience in Asia, facilitated the third Asian Sites of Conscience Workshop, in collaboration with the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-CAM). Thirty-six representatives from 10 countries attended, including the May 18 Foundation (South Korea), Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram (India), South Asian Research and Resource Centre (Pakistan), Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (Philippines), Tribhuvan University (Nepal), and others. The workshop included a tour of Tuol Sleng
Genocide Museum - an iconic site of torture and imprisonment, known as
S-21 during the Khmer Rouge regime - and a discussion on education
programmes that Tuol Sleng could develop to help young people connect
this history with the questions they face today. The site is a central
element in the ongoing international trial of senior leaders of the
Khmer Rouge regime, currently taking place in Phnom Penh.
During the workshop, participants shared the ways they use their sites'
histories to address contemporary conflicts in their local contexts;
identified opportunities for expansion of the Sites of Conscience
movement throughout Asia, including potential sites in Pakistan, Nepal
and Myanmar, where the need to encourage citizen engagement in building
democracy is especially urgent; and through highly visible public
events, leveraged media coverage of the workshop to advocate for the
Sites of Conscience regional movement and the development of a youth
oral history programme at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.
"Archives and Human Rights: Current Uses, Possibilities and Limitations" Workshop - Rosario, Argentina
(September 2008)
On September 25 and 26
Memoria Abierta organized its second workshop on archives and human rights in coordination with the Museum of Memory of Rosario.
Researchers, archivists and human rights activists from different sites
in Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, participated.
The
workshop began with a city-tour through Rosario where participants
could visit sites marked as places of resistance during the last
dictatorship, as well as places of repression (former clandestine
detention centres). Following the visit, a panel led by Griselda
Tessio, Vice-Governor of Santa Fe and former prosecutor in human rights
trials, and Leonor Arfuch, PhD, teacher and investigator at the
University of Buenos Aires, debated the importance of human rights
archives in the current context of the Southern Cone.
During the workshop, participants discussed several issues about the role of archives in human rights and memory work, such as:
The discussions also focused on the specific nature of so-called
"archives of memory" and their differences from historical archives.
The workshop brought out the common challenges faced by both people in
the fields of heritage and history and those in human rights in
activating public memory about past repressions across the region.
American Indian Sites of Conscience, Boarding and Residential Schools - Lawrence, Kansas, USA
(October 2008)
In the late 19th century, the governments of the United States and
Canada began establishing boarding, or residential schools specifically
to assimilate Native children. Through this educational experiment,
they hoped to solve the "Indian problem" by "civilizing" the
population, erasing their traditions, customs and identity from a young
age. Thousands of Native children were forcibly sent far from their
homes to live in these schools. Many struggled with loneliness and fear
away from their tribal homes and familiar customs, but others thrived
despite the hardships, forming lifelong friendships, rejecting the
norms being imposed on them, and preserving their Indian identities.
Today, the government of Canada has initiated the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
including reparations for survivors of residential schools and an
as-yet undefined "commemoration" programme. While the US government has
not addressed its own boarding school policy, a growing number of US
survivor/alumni groups are working against impossible odds to preserve
the school sites as spaces for truth-telling, healing, and reflection.
Navayana (New Delhi, India)
Navayana is India's first and only publishing house to exclusively
focus on the issue of caste from anticaste perspective. Navayana
literally means 'new vehicle', a term given to Dr. B.R.Ambedkar's
socially and morally concerned, rationalistic, anti-metaphysical
interpretation of Buddhism. Navayana was founded in November 2003 by
Ravikumar and S. Anand. Ravikumar is a well known writer and public
intellectual in the Tamil public sphere. Anand, having been a
journalist for ten years, turned his full-time attention to Navayana
following the International Young Publisher of the Year Award
in April 2007. Besides publishing, Navayana is involved in
documentation and activist anticaste interventions such as its recent
initiative Avarna
to ensure workplace diversity. For more information, please visit http://navayana.org
South End Museum (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)
South End Museum seeks to ensure that the historical memory of forced
population removals in South Africa endures by documenting and
recording the history of the common people and their contribution to
the broader history of Port Elizabeth. In doing so, South End Museum
encourages relevant scholastic studies, pursues imaginative and
effective educational exhibition programmes, and fosters debates on
current communal issues. For more information, please visit http://www.southendmuseum.co.za/ or contact Colin
Abrahams at admin@semuseum.co.za.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island (New York, USA)
The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island inspire reflection and dialogue on the meanings and practice of
liberty and opportunity in the United States and throughout the world.
A gift from the people of France commemorating friendship, the
abolition of slavery, and democratic government, the statue "Liberty
Enlightening the World" is one of the world's most recognized icons.
Dedicated on October 28, 1886, she remains today a universal symbol of
freedom and democracy. Opened on January 1, 1892, Ellis Island became
the nation's premier federal immigration station. The "island of hope,
island of tears" now symbolizes the story of immigration, the cultural
richness of the United States, the contribution of immigrants to U.S.
society, and the continuing debate about immigration policy. The
Peopling of America Center, an expansion of the exhibits on Ellis
Island, will explore immigration both before and after Ellis Island,
bringing the story up to the present day. A unit of the U.S. National
Park System, the park is open to the public every day of the year
except Christmas. For more information, please visit http://www.nps.gov/stli/.
Trevor Huddleston CR Memorial Centre (Sophiatown, South Africa)
The Trevor Huddleston CR (Community of the Resurrection mission)
Memorial Centre based in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, is a place for
learning, sharing, and empowering women and men in need to build
stronger communities through various programmes in arts, crafts and
culture, tourism, Information Technology (IT) skills and training, and
HIV/AIDS education. The Centre draws inspiration from the experiences
and hopes of the "new" South Africa and the heritage of "old"
Sophiatown and advocates for a democratic society under the
constitution. For more information, please visit http://www.trevorhuddleston.org/
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