A soldier took my baby off my back and put him on the floor. He penetrated me... he kept...
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Valentine: [Testifying in the tribunal, as a secret witness] A soldier took my baby off my back and put him on the floor. He penetrated me... he kept me until he's had me a second time. Later, I do not remember exactly when, but the Interahamwes held us in another room. And they raped all the girls...
[grimacing at the memory]
Valentine: A young man threw himself on me. As he was taking off his pants, he told me there is no place for me now. After that, he did humiliating things to me... He didn't even care that I was a mother!
[sighs]
Valentine: I heard the young girls scream, but I could not see them...
[hesitates]
Valentine: When the second man was finished, a third man came and... he made me lie down again...
[distressed]
Valentine: He raped me! In that moment, I just wanted to die...!
[bows her head, weeping, and rises again]
Valentine: Then a fourth man came and
[hesitates]
Valentine: he took me. At that moment I thought, "God in Heaven, who are these men?"
Judge Arusha: I'm sorry, but can you tell us what happened next?
Valentine: The next day, they Interahamwe came and they made us go back to that house, but they had to drag me there like a dead person... I was dead.
Judge Arusha: Where was the defendant? Was he in the Cultural Community Centre during this time?
[grimacing at the memory]
Valentine: A young man threw himself on me. As he was taking off his pants, he told me there is no place for me now. After that, he did humiliating things to me... He didn't even care that I was a mother!
[sighs]
Valentine: I heard the young girls scream, but I could not see them...
[hesitates]
Valentine: When the second man was finished, a third man came and... he made me lie down again...
[distressed]
Valentine: He raped me! In that moment, I just wanted to die...!
[bows her head, weeping, and rises again]
Valentine: Then a fourth man came and
[hesitates]
Valentine: he took me. At that moment I thought, "God in Heaven, who are these men?"
Judge Arusha: I'm sorry, but can you tell us what happened next?
Valentine: The next day, they Interahamwe came and they made us go back to that house, but they had to drag me there like a dead person... I was dead.
Judge Arusha: Where was the defendant? Was he in the Cultural Community Centre during this time?
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he took my baby off my back and put it on the floor
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He penetrated me
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He kept me until he had me a second time
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Later I don't remember exactly but
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the Interahamwes held us in another room
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And they raped all the girls
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A young man threw himself on me
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When he was taking off his pants he told me there is no place for me now
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That the government had abandoned us
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After that he did humiliating things to me
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He didn't even care that I was a mother
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I heard the young girls scream but I could not see them
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When the second man was finished a third one came and
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he forced me to lie down again
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He raped me
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At that moment
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I just wanted to die
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Then a fourth man came and
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he took me
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At that moment I thought God in heaven who are these men
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I'm sorry
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But can you tell us what happened next
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The next day
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the Interahamwes came and they made us come back to that house
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But they had to drag me there like a dead person
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I was dead
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Where was the defendant
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Was he in the Cultural Community Center during this time
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Movie Summary
When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.
