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Over the next four weeks, at almost 600 primary and secondary schools throughout the Czech Republic, pupils will come face to face with the many injustices carried out during four decades of communist rule. Using documentary films and interaction with real people who lived through those times, the Stories of Injustice project attempts to shed light on a period that barely features on the mainstream Czech curriculum. The programme is run by the NGO People in Need, and this is its fourth year, but as Rob Cameron reports, it's not to everyone's taste. A class of three dozen 18- and 19-year olds sit in silence at the Malostranské gymnázium, engrossed in a black-and-white documentary called "Ten Points", about a November 1968 strike by Czechoslovak students in protest at the Soviet-led invasion of August of that year. It's a... [read full story]
