The Men Who Killed Me

• News & Events

  Posted on November 1st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  conviction, Rwanda

  Munyaneza gets life sentence in Rwandan war crimes case

  

  A Quebec judge has sentenced Désiré Munyaneza, the first person charged under Canada’s war crimes legislation, to a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years. Munyaneza “chose to kill, rape and pillage in the name of the supremacy of his ethnic group, reminding us that every time a man claims to belong to a superior race, a chosen people, humanity is in danger,” the judge wrote in a 12-page ruling.

• News & Events

  Posted on October 31st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  rape, United Nations

  Security Council adopts resolution on sexual violence in armed conflict

  

  On 30 September 2009, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1888, which demands that all parties to armed conflict take immediate action to protect civilians, including women and children, from all forms of sexual violence, and urges greater measures by States and U.N. entities to combat this scourge.

• News & Events

  Posted on October 31st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  ICTR, rape, Rwanda

  Man accused of presiding over rape of women and girls stands trial

  

  Jean-Baptiste Gatete, a former Director in the Rwandan Ministry of Women and Family Affairs, stood trial at the ICTR in October 2009 for his role in the Rwandan genocide. He is charged with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity. He is alleged to have presided over pogroms which took place in the Catholic churches of Kiziguro and Mukarange, where thousands of Tutsis were killed and women and girls were serially raped.

• News & Events

  Posted on October 31st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  conviction, gacaca, Rwanda

  Rwandan man receives life sentence for rape conviction

  

  On 22 October 2009, the Hirondelle News Agency in Arusha reported that a Kigali gacaca court confirmed the life sentence for Martin Habimana, a prosperous businessman convicted of rape on his first hearing, June 29. Habimana, in his forties, hails from Nyanza (Southern Rwanda). He was convicted for the rape of a young Tutsi woman he confined on the pretext of protecting her from killers.

• News & Events

  Posted on October 18th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  Congo, rape

  Attacks on women in DRC grown threefold

  

  CNN reports on the escalating rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Anneke van Woudenberg of Human Rights Watch said 200,000 women and girls have been raped in Eastern Congo since 1998, and the condition of women has become more dire as the Congolese army has pressed a military campaign against armed groups in the countryside.

• News & Events

  Posted on October 8th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  genocide, intervention

  Senior bureaucrats ignored warning of genocide in Rwanda

  

  The Toronto Star reports on how diplomat Robert Fowler’s memo on the Rwandan genocide was ignored by Ottawa bureaucrats during the killings. He and others are now calling on the federal government to overhaul the way it prepares for and responds to emerging humanitarian catastrophes and state-sponsored ethnic violence.

• News & Events

  Posted on October 8th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  Anne-Marie, commemoration, testimonial

  The Rwandan Genocide: Listening to Survivors

  

  On November 5th, Tilburg University will host a meeting in remembrance of the Rwandan genocide. Co-writer and professor Anne-Marie de Brouwer and professor Rianne Letschert will share their recent experiences in Rwanda where they met with survivors featured in “The Men Who Killed Me”.

• News & Events

  Posted on September 22nd, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  commemoration, Solace Ministries

  The work of Solace Ministries documented on YouTube

  

  YouTube’s Rafiki 5000 recently posted a moving, short film about the work of Solace Ministries for survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The film features an interview with Jean Gakwandi, founder and director of Solace.

• News & Events

  Posted on August 23rd, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  Jeanette, Marie Claire, Marie Louise, survivors

  One year later: meeting with the survivors of “The Men Who Killed Me”

  

  One year after we last met with the survivors featured in “The Men Who Killed Me,” co-editor Anne-Marie de Brouwer returned to Kigali in July 2009 and met with 15 of the 17 survivors featured in the book.

• News & Events

  Posted on August 13th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  Congo, rape

  U.S. response to “epidemic” of sexual violence in Congo

  

  On the heels of a Washington Post report describing the worsening epidemic of rape in the Congo during a U.S.-Backed military operation, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited eastern Congo and unveiled a $17 million plan to fight Congo’s stunning levels of sexual violence.

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• “Graphically, and without doubt, this book makes the case that rape is no lesser a crime than murder.”

  Lieutenant-General the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire (ret.), Senator
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