\nKigali, 24 July 2009 (FH) - Mrs J.M (not her real name), now in her 40s. She says she can never forget the serial rape ordeal she underwent during the 1994 genocide. She is a victim, but she is brave woman who is surviving with hope and determination.\n<\/p>\n
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\n"In 1994, I was raped. Others died immediately. Since then am carrying death cross which is killing me little by little," said Mrs J.M in a soft voice.\n<\/p>\n
\n"The past and the present confuses me a lot, sometimes hard to bear", she quipped.\n<\/p>\n
\nHer husband was killed by a machete; the head of her only son who was then three years old was smashed against a wall; the serial rape on her body; and her three sisters-in-law killed on the spot which forced her into exile to a refugee camp in the former Zaire[ now the Democratic Republic of Congo].\n<\/p>\n
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\n"There [Zaire] I gave a birth to a baby girl [because of pregnancy following serial rapes]," she recalls sadly.\n<\/p>\n
\nOn return to her country, she discovered that she was HIV positive.\n<\/p>\n
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\nThus, once a month, she goes to a psychosocial center in Kigali, where, beyond the counselling, she receives anti-retroviral drugs.\n<\/p>\n
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\nThere she meets other women with whom she shares this sad story of the genocide.\n<\/p>\n
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\n"We tell each other everything, without hiding anything; which has led us to love each other..." she consoles.\n<\/p>\n
\nAs for the child born of the martyrdom, the girl was already now in secondary school.\n<\/p>\n
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\nBeautiful and intelligent, the innocent creature forces the admiration of her entourage.\n<\/p>\n
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\n"Before, I was a bit reluctant as she was a child born from unknown rapists. But, slowly the pain has started healing... I have started to love her and cherish her. By Loving her, gives me relief that I mysteriously survived death", confesses the lady, seating in front of her bazaar, where she sells various food items.\n<\/p>\n
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\n"To raise Josee [ not her real name], my only reason of being alive; I work hard, in spite of my ill-health," she said, adding that she hopes to live long enough to make her [ Josee] a humble and noble woman able to fly on her own wings.\n<\/p>\n
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