The Men Who Killed Me

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  Posted on October 6th, 2011

  Written by Sandra

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  assistance, FARG, funds, survivors

  Over 100 billion Rwandan francs spent on survivors’ welfare

  

  Rwanda’s Prime Minister Bernard Makuza announces that, since the establishment of the Fund for Genocide Survivors, the government has spent Rwf 110.8 billion towards the welfare of survivors. The fund was established in 1998 to improve the welfare of genocide survivors by providing them with basic needs including shelter, healthcare, education and guidance towards self-sustainability.

• News & Events

  Posted on October 2nd, 2011

  Written by Sandra

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  assistance, reparation, survivors

  Rwandan survivors still waiting for reparation

  

  Juergen Schurr reports that at a conference in Kigali last month, survivors stressed once again that they considered that justice without reparation is not justice. As of today, judgments awarding compensation to survivors have not been enforced and survivors have yet to receive reparation.

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  Posted on January 3rd, 2011

  Written by Sandra

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  Anne-Marie, survivors

  Happy New Year from Anne-Marie, Sandra and Samer

  

  Over the holidays, Anne-Marie and her partner Freek made a trip to Rwanda to celebrate her good friend’s marriage. While they were there, they had the opportunity to visit Solace Ministries, and reconnect with many of the people who helped make “The Men Who Killed Me” happen, including some of the women featured in the book.

• News & Events

  Posted on September 10th, 2010

  Written by Sandra

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  Anne-Marie, survivors

  Reconnecting with the survivors in “The Men Who Killed Me”

  

  In August 2010, Mukomeze paid a visit to Solace Ministries in Kigali, Rwanda. During our visit, we were able to reunite with almost all of the seventeen individuals who shared their testimonials in “The Men Who Killed Me”, and had the opportunity to see first-hand how they had used the proceeds of the book to build better lives for themselves and their families.

• 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 May 1st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  commemoration, photography, post-genocide, survivors

  100 Days Photo Exhibition in the Netherlands

  

  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.

• News & Events

  Posted on April 18th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  commemoration, post-genocide, survivors, Trauma

  No Small Mercy: Alice Mukarurinda and the man who almost killed her

  

  in “No Small Mercy,” Jina Moore writes about how a genocide survivor, Alice Mukarurinda, made peace with the man who almost killed her.

• News & Events

  Posted on March 23rd, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  anniversary, commemoration, SURF, survivors, testimonial

  Commemorations of Rwanda genocide around the world

  

  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.

• News & Events

  Posted on March 6th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  Congo, DRC, Eve Ensler, survivors, V-Day

  Eve Ensler in Toronto for International Women’s Day lecture

  

  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.

• News & Events

  Posted on March 6th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  commemoration, genocide, post-genocide, rape, review, survivors

  Lucid Magazine profiles “The Men Who Killed Me”

  

  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.

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

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