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.
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.
in “No Small Mercy,” Jina Moore writes about how a genocide survivor, Alice Mukarurinda, made peace with the man who almost killed her.
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.
On 5 March 2009, Eve Ensler spoke to a packed lecture hall at Toronto Women’s College Hospital about violence against women, the bravery of the women in the Congo and the work of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women.
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.
The Gacaca courts (semi-traditional courts) are scheduled to end in June this year. Inspired by Rwandan tradition, the gacaca courts are charged with trying people in Rwanda suspected to have taken part in the 1994 killing spree against Tutsis. In 2008 an amendment of the law broadened the jurisdiction of the gacaca to rape cases.
