I attended the Jonathan Torgonik photojournalist INTENDED CONSEQUENCES lecture that was based on the photography of children born of rape in the Rwanda genocide 15 years ago. The experience was moving, not for the photographic art, per se, but for the included testimonies of actual victims of rape from that place in history (3 women now residing under different names in the U.S.). I learned that I have little to complain about in life in comparison to others who have watched their mothers and children raped, butchered and killed in front of them. Now, those who have survived are left with HIV and children due to the war weapon used against them, infection and rape. Under different names to protect them and their children, they live in the U.S. and have joined together with Amnesty International to educate others about the ongoing genocides that take place around the world. The women of Rwanda who came to the lecture to speak offered their testimonies, and were honest, and confided that some mothers can love the enemies seeded children born into this world this violent way, and other mothers cannot love their children at all.
Here is the LINK to the short documentary film about this organized effort !!!
http://mediastorm.org/0024.htm
