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CONTENT WARNING: THIS TESTIMONY CONTAINS GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Amina Kayirangwa survived the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. She was liberated by the Rwandan Patriotic Army in Nyakabanda, Rwanda, and interviewed in Kinyinya, Rwanda in 2015. Please enable closed captioning for English translation.

“They were spending days with me on the streets until I started wondering if I was a human or not. Each one of them had their turn on me whenever they wanted. One would have his turn and then hand me over to another. Until now, sometimes I feel like I am not a human being. Of course God has protected me, but I sometimes ask myself ‘What am I?’ I often wonder if I am a woman or a girl. Until now, I feel like I don’t know who I am.”

USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive contains the testimonies of 147 survivors and rescuers of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. They were recorded in Rwanda and the United States by the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center and USC Shoah Foundation between 2004 and 2011. The interview language is either Kinyarwanda or English; all the Kinyarwanda testimonies have English subtitles. Learn more about the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda at https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/rwandan.

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