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Reportage by Getty Images TumblrLensCulture interviewed the photographer Jonathan Torgovnik about his project “Intended Consequences,” on the children born of rape during the Rwandan Genocide:
What surprised me, at first, was that because they hadn’t shared their stories with anyone before, there was a real eagerness to talk. Perhaps because I was a foreigner—from outside the community—they felt that I was not judging them. They sensed that I was trying to document their stories and give them a voice and a space to be heard. … [It was important] to put a face on the statistics of how many were raped and killed. But even more important, was when I would go from one story to the next and to the next, and start to comprehend that these horrors were probably representative of everything that happened during the conflict.
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Above, Josette, a Rwandan woman with her son, Thomas. “I must be honest with you; I never loved this child. Whenever I remember what his father did to me, I used to feel the only revenge would be to kill his son. But I never did that. I forced myself to like him, but he is unlikable. The boy is too stubborn and bad. It’s not because he knows I don’t love him; it’s that blood in him.”
Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage
