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.
