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Seif Kousmate/TNH
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His mother was raped in 1994 and contracted HIV, but he was spared the virus. “It took too long for my mum to move on – an issue that is part of the reason my parents divorced,” he says. “She later had to learn to forgive and forget. Through that, and through telling the story of what happened to her, and through interacting with ex-perpetrators, she was eventually able to move on. She taught us to never hate those people who killed our family during the genocide. If we do, it will be a continuous circle of hate.”
- Credits Seif Kousmate/TNH
- Regions Africa East Africa Rwanda