据统计在这次卢旺达种族灭绝过程中诞生的孩子约为二万人。而且大部分母亲在这些暴力侵犯中染上了人体免疫缺损病毒(包括艾滋病病毒)。这些母亲感受到了尊严的失落,同时生活在孤独无援的悲惨境地之中。
2006年1月,摄影家乔纳森·托洛夫尼克(Jonathan Torgovnik)去东非拍摄了一组和人体免疫缺损病毒/艾滋病病毒的报道,这也是艾滋病被确认之后的第25年。在卢旺达,他遇上了玛格丽特,一位当年的幸存者,怀孕并且也染上了人体免疫缺损病毒。
玛格丽特恐怖的经历让摄影家一年以后再次去了卢旺达,开始准备用三年的时间,以更为深入的细节揭开这次暴行的残忍的一面。尤其是他们中的许多人都被整个社区以及自己的亲戚所抛弃。
尤其是在今天,这样的悲剧似乎在苏丹的达尔富尔地区以及刚果重演,因此也希望让整个世界知道,这样的悲剧还可能被重演。他所采访的女性经过了十多年的时间才开始愈合自身的创伤。
34岁的韦蕾娜说:“我无法告诉你究竟有多少男人对我进行了强暴。真的无法计数。我只知道四个月以后我开始怀孕。我的状态是如此的糟糕,怀孕后我两次试图自杀。如今我已经知道自己携带了人体免疫缺损病毒和艾滋病病毒。”
所有的幸存者的体验都是极不寻常的,许多女性在被强暴之后还被强迫目睹了整个家庭的屠杀。这些女性告诉摄影家:“他们只能允许你一个人活下去,让你永远生活在悲惨中。”
这些女性生活在不可思议的悲剧之中,然而卢旺达的未来却和这些女性息息相关。因为在种族灭绝之后的卢旺达,幸存者中女性占了70%以上,整个国家需要依靠这些女性重建家园。
于是摄影家在记录这些悲剧的过程中,希望以超越摄影的方式完成职业生涯中最为严峻的任务。于是他和朱尔斯·谢尔(Jules Shell)一起筹建了一个卢旺达基金会,一个非赢利的组织,以便给种族灭绝所带来的悲剧提供一些援助。
基金会主要给孩子提供一些教育基金,同时也给他们的母亲提供心理和医药的服务,并且通过摄影和其他媒介,让更多的人知道种族灭绝和性暴力所带来的严重后果。
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HD Photo: Rwandan tragedy of sexual violence victims
China Network Binhai New: www.022china.com time: 2011-02-07 10:03:27
In the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the women are large-scale violations of sexual violence, criminals are all members of the Hutu extremist organizations. In the middle of these survivors, most women are alone and helpless due to give birth to a child being raped. Their mothers and children of these families refuse to let them into a more tragic emotional space.
According to statistics, during the Rwandan genocide in the birth of a child about two million people. And most of the violence against the mother in those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (including HIV). These mothers felt the loss of dignity while living in a lonely misery being.
January 2006, photographer Jonathan Trotsky Fu Nike (Jonathan Torgovnik) to shoot a group of East Africa and the HIV / AIDS virus, reported, and this is after AIDS was first recognized 25 years. In Rwanda, he met Margaret, a survivor of the year, pregnancy and also infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
Margaret terrible experience for photographers once again to Rwanda a year later, began to prepare in three years time to reveal more in-depth details of the atrocities of the cruel side. Especially many of them are entire communities and abandoned by their relatives.
Especially today, it seems such a tragedy in Sudan's Darfur region and the repeat of the Congo, and, therefore, to let the world know that this tragedy could be repeated. Women he interviewed more than a decade after the time to begin to heal its own wounds.
34-year-old Wei Leina said: "I can not tell you how many men had raped me. Really can not count. I only know that after four months pregnant I started. My state is so bad, I'm pregnant twice tried to commit suicide. Now I know they carry the human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS virus. "
All the survivors are very unusual experience, many women after being raped was also forced to witness the massacre of the entire family. The women told the photographer: "They only allow one person you live, so you will always live in misery."
These women live in the incredible tragedies, however, the future of Rwanda is closely related to these women. Because after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors accounted for more than 70% of women, the whole country needs to rely on these women rebuild their homes.
So photographer in the process of recording these tragedies, I hope to go beyond the way photography career, the most serious to complete the task. So he and Jules Shell (Jules Shell) along with Rwanda to build a foundation, a nonprofit organization, to give the tragedy of genocide brought to provide some assistance.
Foundation, to provide some education fund for children, but also to their mothers to provide psychological and medical services, and through photography and other media, to let more people know that sexual violence genocide and serious consequences.