PODCAST: The power of bearing witness – how rape became an ‘act of genocide’

PODCAST: The power of bearing witness – how rape became an ‘act of genocide’
Shame and stigma prevent many rape survivors in conflict zones from reporting the horrific abuses they endure at the hands of war but the criminals whose sole aim in carrying out these horrific deeds is to torture and humiliate their enemy.

Yet the courageous testimonies of women who survived rape during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda provided the evidence required for a United Nations war crimes tribunal to find Jean-Paul Akayesu guilty, four years after the shocking conflagration, marking the first judgment for the crime of genocide under international law.

PODCAST: The power of bearing witness – how rape became an ‘act of genocide’
Source: UN News – Women, Children, and Population