{"id":37477,"date":"2018-05-14T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-6000-genocide-survivors-infected-with-hiv\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:33:22","slug":"over-6000-genocide-survivors-infected-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-6000-genocide-survivors-infected-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 6000 Genocide survivors infected with HIV\/AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Rwandans, yesterday commemorated women and children that were slain on Kayumba hill of Nyamata sector, Bugesera district, CNLG recalled  the violence against women and girls that constituted a tragically widespread component of the genocide and war strategy in 1994. <\/p>\n<p>The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi had very grave effects on top of the over a million that lost their lives. According to various reports, a number of women contracted the deadly HIV\/AIDS due to rape from Genocide perpetrators. This subsequently had serious implications on human health and the Rwandan population in general.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)&#8217;s survey that was conducted in 2007, a total of 309,368 survived the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, with 58 % being female.<\/p>\n<p>Although the female population was higher among survivors, Dr Bizimana remarked that it was not out of pity but a well-documented and tragically widespread component of the genocide and war strategy in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>During the genocide, women and girls-predominantly survived or succumbed to extraordinary acts of violence. Many were raped at barriers erected by the interahamwe youth militia and\/or held as sexual captives in exchange for temporary protection from interahamwe militia and the military. Their bodies and spirits were mutilated, humiliated and scarred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact of sexual violence perpetrated during the genocide is critical. Among survivors, 6321 women contracted HIV\\AIDS, 10,3 % were left as widows, 21% were left as orphans and 7% were left with permanent disabilities.\u201d Dr Bizimana said<\/p>\n<p>He added that women and girls-predominantly were raped at barriers erected by the interahamwe youth militia, their bodies and spirits mutilated, humiliated and scarred.<\/p>\n<p>Ibuka President in Nyamata sector, Dukuzumuremyi Eugene, said that on tragic memories were left on Kayumba hill, whereby 9000 lives were slain, leaving behind not more than 70 people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25252 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umunyamabanga_nshingwabikorwa_wa_komisiyo_yo_kurwanya_jenoside_cnlg_dr_bizimana_jean_damascene-1ee45.jpg\" alt=\"The executive-secretary of the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), Jean-Damasc\u00e8ne Bizimana\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25251 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bamwe_mu_bayobozi_bakuru_babyitabiriye-30e0b.jpg\" alt=\"Rwandans, yesterday commemorating women and children that were slain on Kayumba hill of Nyamata sector, Bugesera district\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25253 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uko_byari_byifashe-7-c66bb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive-secretary of the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), Jean-Damasc\u00e8ne Bizimana said that over 6000 of the 1994 genocide survivors contracted HIV\/AIDS, while others were sexually mutilated, humiliated and scarred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37477"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37477"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}