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Godeliève Mukasarasi Quotes

born 1959 Rwanda

Godeliève Mukasarasi (born 1959) is a Rwandan social worker, genocide survivor, and rural development activist. She is the founder of the organization called Sevota that support widowed women and their children after the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.

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Everyone still lives with the consequences. Some of the perpetrators went to jail, but they come back and live close to the survivors. The genocide is not over; the survivors are still living with those who committed the crimes.

In 1998, women’s rights activists like us managed to make sure that the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda considers rape in war a genocidal crime, so those who planned and perpetrated such violence can be prosecuted.

Rwandan women have played a big role to make sure that sexual violence in conflict became known as a crime against humanity, for us to be in the U.N. is a way of recognizing the hard work and what we have done.

The important thing is to make sure the U.N. creates another resolution to support the kids who are born from rape. If they are really working hard to prevent such things happening it has to be there. because it’s still happening in other parts of the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Godeliève Mukasarasi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.