Did you know?
- Over the time period of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, an estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some Hutus were slaughtered in the Rwandan genocide.
- A recent report has estimated the number to be close to 2 million. During this period of terrible slaughter, more than 6 men, women and children were murdered every minute of every hour of every day.
- This brutally efficient killing was maintained for more than 3 months.
- During this period of slaughter, more than 6 men, women and children were murdered every minute of every hour of every day.
- This killing spree was maintained for more than 3 months. 250,000 and 500,000 women were raped during the 100 days of genocide.
- Up to 20,000 children were born to women as a result of rape.
- More than 67% of women who were raped in 1994 during the genocide were infected with HIV and AIDS. I
- n many cases, this resulted from a systematic and planned use of rape by HIV+ men as a weapon of genocide.
- Of those that survived the genocide over half the children stopped their schooling, because of poverty.
- 40,000 survivors are still without shelter, many whose homes were destroyed in the genocide.