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- ↑ Huang 2012.
- ↑ Singer 2008, p. 4.
- ↑ Birkner 2005.
- ↑ "What We Do". Genocide Survivors Foundation.
- ↑ NYU 2011.
- ↑ Salamone 2010.
- ↑ DoSomething.org.
- ↑ Sambira 2013.