Rwanda: Group Therapy for Genocide Trauma

Kigali — "Socio-therapy not only helps to battle our traumas but it also helps to reconcile victims and perpetrators" says Immaculate, a Rwandan woman with visible and invisible scars of the 1994 genocide. In the past 17 years, she learned that she can't escape her experiences but needs to learn to live with the past.

She sits in the shade of a tree with half a dozen of other women; most of them were raped during the genocide that killed 800.000 Tutsi's and moderate Hutu's. "This socio-therapy group was an eye opener. I thought my case was unique, but most others have the same experience. It helped me to accept the past and move on with my life", Immaculate adds.

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