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Article: Women and Rwanda's genocide: what goes unsaid.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)
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- Sister Namibia
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- December 1, 2004
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The victims of the Rwandan genocide did not all die during the 100 days in which most of the killings took place. Ten years after the massacre of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and opposition Hutu, the genocide continues to take lives. Slowly, painfully and yet almost invisibly, thousands of Rwandan women are succumbing to HIV/AIDS acquired through rape. Genocide, rape, and HIV infection have condemned these women to certain death. We call them "survivors," when in fact their deaths are merely delayed. As we remember the Rwandan genocide this year, it only seems appropriate that we acknowledge those who lived, if only to die another day.
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