Women, we need to be courageous.
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12 Women, we need to be courageous Illuminée munyabugingo My name is Illuminée Munyabugingo. The 1994 genocide against Tutsis happened when I was thirty-four years old. I was born in Kigali in a camp for internally displaced persons. My family had moved there from Eastern Province because of the 1959 massacres of Tutsis. We were a family with sixteen children. During the 1959 massacres, the house of my family was not destroyed as it was during the 1994 genocide. People still had kindness when I was younger. The 1959 violence continued and claimed my father in 1963. The same happened to other people who were sub-chiefs during the monarchy regime and who were seen as accomplices of the cockroaches. My mother died a few years later when I was fourteen years old. In 1979 I married a man from a prosperous family. I lived with my husband in Bugesera until the genocide started in 1994. We had a good life and together had seven children. The 1994 genocide took my beloved husband, two of my children and thirteen of my siblings. The genocide was in many ways different from the previous wars of 1959, 1963, 1967 and 1973. In those wars, a person could hide in the house of a neighbour. In 1994 no one was willing to rescue another person. I had never realised before that someone can kill his or her neighbour, slay an innocent child or even kill his own sibling. What I experienced then brought me far in my thoughts, it traumatized me deeply, up to a point that I thought God had forgotten me. After only two days of genocide I saw a bus arrive full of people, who entered the local church and started murdering people. They killed them all and burned them. I do not know how we – me, my husband and five of our six children – escaped. We had nowhere to go. Eventually, I ran with my husband, three children and some other people who had survived the killings to a nearby swamp. There I experienced unspeakable woe. I was pregnant and very tired. A crowd of Interahamwe found me in the marshes and violated me. I was not able to put my legs together anymore. Among the many men who violated me, there were two boys I knew quite well. One had been adopted by my husband and me. …
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
دوره 24 Suppl 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014