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Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 5, 2002 - 02:00
Categories: 
Women & gender [2]
Issue Number: 
91 [3]
Article-Summary: 

In the summer of 1994, an estimated 800,000 to 1 million people were killed over a three-month period, when Rwanda's Hutu government set out to eliminate the country's ethnic Tutsi minority. Most were killed with guns and machetes. But for many Tutsi women - accused by the Hutus of being too prideful - the Hutus used AIDS as part of their arsenal, raping them to infect them. A handful of programs are assisting women who were raped and infected with AIDS, but thousands more go without help.

Category: 
Gender & Minorities [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/wgender/11895 [5]
Country: 
Rwanda [6]

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