Open Access“We are the memory representation of our parents”: Intergenerational legacies of genocide among descendants of rape survivors in Rwanda
Author(s) -
Marie Grâce Kagoyire,
Annemiek Richters
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
torture journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1997-3322
pISSN - 1018-8185
DOI - 10.7146/torture.v28i3.111183
Subject(s) - genocide , psychosocial , psychological resilience , descendant , psychology , focus group , gender studies , criminology , developmental psychology , sociology , social psychology , political science , psychiatry , law , astronomy , physics , anthropology
The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda subjected thousands of women to rape as part of a range of other genocidal atrocities. This article explores what it means in everyday life to be a descendant of such mothers.
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