MUHANGA, Rwanda — They grew up bearing the stigma of “children of torturers”, shunned by their own communities, locked in a quest for identity that decades later remains without an end.
Nearly 27 years have passed since the genocide in Rwanda, but the children born of rape perpetrated during the country’s torment are still struggling with trauma, even as the country works towards national reconciliation.
“In my heart I have many scars,” said Patrick, 26.
“I don’t know who my father is and my future will always be complicated because I don’t know my past.”
Over 100 days in 1994, around 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority were murdered, in a …
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