After a visit to the Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre, a mass grave in the city of Kigali, Rwanda, Governor General Michaëlle Jean apologized to Rwandan leaders for Canada’s “inaction” during the 1994 genocide in the African country.
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”.
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.
The 100 days photo-exhibition “The Men Who Killed Me” features 20 photos of survivors of sexual violence whose testimonials and photos are spotlighted in the book “The Men Who Killed Me”. The photos are taken by Samer Muscati and travels throughout the Netherlands for 100 days – the period of the 1994 genocide.
An exhibit of Samer’s photographs of the 17 survivors featured in “The Men Who Killed Me” will be running at the Craig Scott Gallery at 95 Berkeley Street in Toronto until May 31st, 2009. Proceeds from the sale of the photographs will go to Mukomeze.
in “No Small Mercy,” Jina Moore writes about how a genocide survivor, Alice Mukarurinda, made peace with the man who almost killed her.
During a commemoration of the 15 years since the genocide, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda stated that it is an indisputable legal fact that genocide took place in Rwanda in 1994 and dismissed negationists who try to describe the tragic event otherwise.
In the days leading up to the 15 years since the Rwandan genocide, Anne-Marie, Sandra and Samer have participated in interviews in Canada and the Netherlands discussing the sexual violence during the genocide, and the ongoing impact it has had on the survivors.
Fifteen years after she was gang-raped, beaten and left for dead near a river in southern Rwanda, Pascasie Mukasakindi still struggles to put the pieces of her life together. The militia responsible for the genocide “killed what I would have become,” she told us in Kigali when we met while working on a project documenting sexual violence.
Different organizations around the world are organizing events to commemorate the 15 years since the Rwanda genocide. The Survivors Fund (SURF), Foundation Rwanda, and Rwanda Remembered are organizing commemorative readings of testimonials and concerts to support survivors in Rwanda.
