Rwandan Genocide

• Throughout the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, approximately 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some moderate Hutus were massacred in the Rwandan genocide.



Victims of the genocide lay in large gravesides throughout Rwanda

 

• During this period, more than 6 men, women and children were murdered every minute of every hour of every day. This efficiency of killing was maintained for more than 3 months.
• There are between 300,000 to 400,000 survivors of the genocide.
• Between 250,000 and 500,000 women were raped during the 100 days of genocide. As a result of this rape, up to 20,000 children were born from these women.
• More than 67% of women who were raped during the genocide were infected with HIV and AIDS. In many cases, this resulted from a systematic and planned use of rape by HIV+ men as a weapon of genocide.
• There are 10 times as many widows than widowers – almost 50,000 widows of the genocide.
• Nearly 100,000 survivors are aged between 14 and 21, of which 60,000 are categorised as very vulnerable.
• 75,000 of survivors were orphaned as a result of the genocide.

• Due to poverty, over half the children who survived stopped their schooling.
• 40,000 survivors are still without shelter, many whose homes were destroyed in the genocide.
• 7 in 10 survivors earn a monthly income of less than 5000 Rwandan Francs (Equivalent to 8 American Dollars)





Orphaned Child