Namibia: Rwanda - What Lessons for Namibian Youth?

25 April 2014
analysis

TWENTY years ago, in Rwanda, approximately 800 000 to 1 million Tutsi and some moderate Hutus were massacred in what we now know as the Rwanda Genocide.

The facts at hand indicate that throughout the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, more than six men, women and children were murdered every minute of every hour of every day for those 100 days of the genocide. Between 250 000 and 500 000 women were raped during those 100 days and as a result of this rape, up to 20 000 children were born from those women. More than 67 percent 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 and 75 000 of survivors were orphaned as a result of the genocide.

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