Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide

New Vision Partners and USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture [Published date: 2004]. Soft cover, 79 pp. Text in English, with a French translation of p. 5-15. In good condition. Black and white pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall soiling and scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Photographs by Jerry Berndt. In 1994, over a period of 100 days, at least 800,000 people were killed in the small country of Rwanda, located in the Great Lakes region of central Africa. The devastation caused by the genocide is evident in images from genocide memorials: weapons, lye-covered human remains, and rows of skulls. In 2002,USC professor Donald E. Miller and his wife Lorna Touryan Miller began a partnership with an association of orphans (AOCM) after attending an international conference on genocide in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda. Drawing on their expertise in oral history, they worked with the leadership of this organization to document the members' experiences of the genocide and their current struggle for survival. One hundred interviews were tape recorded, transcribed, and translated into English. Subsequently, another project was launched with an association of widows (AVEGA) who survived the genocide, and sixty interviews were done. On two different occasions, photojournalist Jerry Berndt joined the Millers to photograph the orphans, genocide memorial sites, and various non-governmental organizations that are working with survivors in Rwanda. This book contains excerpts from several of the interviews along with Berndt's stunning photographs.…