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.
Over one million judgments have been rendered by the semi-traditional Gacaca courts in Rwanda. The courts are now focusing on cases involving the planners, organizers, instigators and supervisors of the genocide, and those who committed rape and other forms of sexual violence.
A court in The Hague sentenced Joseph Mpambara, a former Interahamwe member, to 20 years imprisonment for his role in killing two Tutsi mothers and at least four children during the 1994 genocide. Mpambara was also convicted of torturing a German doctor, his Tutsi wife and their two-month-old son.
Lucid Magazine’s inaugural issue features an article on survivors of sexual violence of the Rwandan genocide and interviews with Anne-Marie, Sandra and Samer.
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes, “For years now, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marauding bands of soldiers and militias have been waging a war of rape and destruction against women. This sustained campaign of mind-bending atrocities, mostly in the eastern part of the country, has been one of the strategic tools in a wider war that has continued, with varying degrees of intensity, since the 1990s. Millions have been killed.”
In the run up to the 15th commemoration of the 1994 genocide, a Rwandan association, dealing with post genocide trauma, has reported an increase of mental health disorders among survivors of the 101-day slaughter.
So many men were killed during the Rwandan genocide that women have increasingly found themselves in positions of power. How is that changing the country? Chris McGreal reports.
