Delve Deeper into “LUMO” A film by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker lll This multi-media resource list, Csete, Joanne and Juliane Christian mission, established a compiled by Martha Perry of the Kippenberg. The War Within the medical center in Ethiopia, treating Princeton Public Library in War: Sexual Violence Against thousands of women suffering from partnership with the American Women and Girls in Eastern obstetric fistula. Library Association, provides a Congo. New York: Human Rights range of perspectives on the Watch, 2002. A thorough report Hatzfeld, Jean. Machete Season: issues raised by the upcoming addressing the context, The Killers in Rwanda Speak: A P.O.V. documentary “LUMO” background, aftermath, legal Report. New York: Farrar, that premieres on September issues, and local and international Straus and Giroux, 2005. Foreign 18, 2007 at 10 PM (check local responses to sexual violence being correspondent Hatzfeld interviews listings at www.pbs.org/pov/). used as a weapon of war in Eastern ten Hutus who admit to taking part Congo against women and girls. in the Rwandan genocide. The The agonies of present-day Africa http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/d thoughts, motivations and regrets are deeply etched on the bodies of rc/ of these men reveal how an women. In eastern Congo on the ordinary person can become Rwanda border, vying militias, Edgerton, Robert B. The capable of committing unimaginable armies and bandits use rape as a Troubled Heart of Africa: A atrocities. History of the Congo. New York: weapon of terror. Lumo Sinai was St. Martin’s Press, 2002. A MacKinnon, Catherine. "Crimes just over 20 when marauding complete history of the Congo from of War, Crimes of Peace," in On soldiers attacked her. A fistula, the time of the Portuguese Human Rights: the Oxford common among victims of violent explorers in the 15th and 16th Amnesty Lectures 1993. Ed. S. rape, rendered her incontinent and centuries to its present-day Shute and S. Hurley. New York: threatens her ability to bear conflicts, with a look towards an Basic Books, 1993. Two essays children. Rejected by her fiancé uncertain future affecting the entire written by law professor and and cast aside by her family, she continent. women’s rights activist, Catherine awaits reconstructive surgery. MacKinnon, addressing the issue of "LUMO" is her story, tragic for its Fleischman, Janet. Shattered gender-based violence during the cruelties but also inspiring for the Lives: Sexual Violence During Bosnia-Herzegovina conflicts, as struggle she wages and the dignity the Rwandan Genocide and Its well as women’s rights in times of she displays, with the help of an Aftermath. New York: Human peace. extraordinary African hospital, to Rights Watch, 1996. A thorough overcome shame, fear and the report addressing the context, Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. The background, aftermath, legal Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A affliction that robs her of a normal issues, and local and international People's History. London; New life. responses to sexual violence York: Zed Books, 2002. A political against women and girls during the examination of the history of the ________________________ Rwandan genocide. Congo from its European ADULT NONFICTION http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/R colonization and exploitation to its wanda.htm present-day conflicts. Amnesty International. Democratic Republic of Congo: Graff, Kristina and Maggie Ohambe, Marie Claire Mass Rape – Time for Remedies. Bangser. Faces of Dignity: Omanyondo et al. Women’s London: Amnesty International, Seven Stories of Girls & Women Bodies as a Battleground: International Secretariat, 2004. with Fistula. Dar es Salaam: Sexual Violence against Women Compiled from year-long research, Women’s Dignity Project, 2003. and Girls during the War in the this report includes interviews in the Recounts the stories of seven girls Democratic Republic of Congo: Congo with survivors of rape, local and women living with obstetric South Kivu (1996-2003). Sud- human rights activists, local and fistula and paints a portrait of Kivu: Réseau des Femmes pour international humanitarian resilience and strength in spite of un Développement Associatif organizations, and government and tremendous personal loss. (RFDA): Réseau des Femmes armed group representatives. pour la Défense des Droits et la http://web.amnesty.org/library/inde Green, December. Gender Paix, 2004. A comprehensive and x/engafr620182004 Violence in Africa: African methodical report on the crisis of Women’s Responses. New York: sexual and gender-based violence Amnesty International. St. Martin’s Press, 1999. Green as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo: compares the effects of gender Democratic Republic of Congo, Mass Rape – Surviving Rape: violence throughout sub-Saharan linking it with the overall state of Voices from the East. London: Africa, describing gender violence women’s rights in Africa. Amnesty International, as a multilayered phenomenon International Secretariat, 2004. operating within three contexts: the Scherrer, Christian P. Genocide A report based on testimonies given family, the economy and the state. and Crisis in Central Africa: by four Congolese rape victims, a Conflict Roots, Mass Violence Congolese human rights activist, Hamlin, Catherine and John and Regional War. Westport, CT: and the head nurse of a rural health Little. The Hospital by the River: Praeger, 2002. Explores the center. A Story of Hope. Grand Rapids, background to the conflicts in the http://web.amnesty.org/library/inde MI: Monarch Books, 2004. This is Great Lakes Region as well as what x/engafr620192004 the story of Dr. Catherine Hamlin the international community might and her husband Reg who, on a Delve Deeper into “LUMO” A film by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker lll do to break this tragic cycle of __________________________________ __________________________________ violence and despair. NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES/ READERS BROADCASTS Temple-Raston, Dina. Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Booher, Dianna Daniels. Rape: CNN Presents: “The Killing Journalists, Their Trial for War What Would You Do If…? Fields: Africa’s Misery, the Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Englewood Cliffs, NJ: J. World’s Shame.” Original Air Redemption. New York: Free Messner, 1991. Grades 7 and up. Date: October 8, 2006. Anderson Press, 2005. Examines the role Although focusing on rape in the Cooper, Jeff Koinange, Sanjay three media executives from Radio United States, this book addresses Gupta and John Roberts examine Télévision Libre des Mille Collines issues such as motives behind rape, the many problems that face Africa (RTLM) and the tabloid newspaper potential rapists, prevention, and today, including increasing sexual Kangura played in stirring ordinary ways to cope with the aftermath of violence towards African women. Rwandans into becoming murderers rape. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC during the 1994 genocide and RIPTS/0610/08/cp.02.html Rwanda’s quest to bring them to Willis, Terri. Democratic justice. Republic of Congo “God Sleeps in Rwanda.” A film (Enchantment of the World. by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy __________________________________ Second Series). New York: Sherman. Women Make Movies, ADULT FICTION Children's Press, 2004. Grades 4- 2004. (29 min.) This 2005 6. Introduces young readers to the Academy Award nominated Dongala, Emmanuel Boundzéki Democratic Republic of Congo with documentary presents the stories of (translated from the French by facts about the geography, history, five female Rwandan genocide Maria Louise Ascher). Johnny wildlife, economy, government, survivors as they rebuild their lives, Mad Dog. New York: Farrar, people, religion, and culture of the showing how women are picking up Straus and Giroux, 2005. With region. the pieces and creating hope in a alternating narrations of two nation recovering from its past teenage Congolese, this book offers __________________________________ atrocities. two very different perspectives FICTION FOR YOUNGER www.godsleepsinrwanda.com during the nation’s conflict. One READERS voice is that of the arrogant and “In the Tall Grass: Inside the ignorant Johnny, a young member Jansen, Hanna (translated from Citizen-Based Justice System in of a violent militia, while the other the German by Elizabeth D. Gacaca.” A film by J. Coll is that of Laoklole, a bright girl who Crawford). Over a Thousand Metcalfe & Eugene Cornelius. struggles to save her family from Hills I Walk with You. Choices, Inc., 2006. (57 min.) the mayhem and somehow maintain Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Focuses on the Hutu and Tutsi as a hopeful future. 2006. Grades 9 and up. Based on they struggle through Rwanda's the memories of the author’s unique reconciliation process: Iweala, Uzodinma. Beasts of No adopted Tutsi daughter, this Gacaca, a network of grassroots Nation. New York: Harper fictionalized biography tells the community courts. Shows the Collins Publishers, 2005. A story of eight year old Jeanne as challenges faced by post-genocide disturbing, but compelling read, she witnesses the murder of her countries as they transition from Iweala’s debut novel tells the family and destruction of her home violence to peace. harrowing experiences of a child during the 1994 genocide. www.nationalfilmnetwork.com soldier during a conflict in an unnamed West African nation. Stassen, Jean-Philippe “Love, Labor, Loss.” A film by (translated from the French by Lisa Russell, Carrie Svigen and Tayler, Jeffrey. Facing the Alex Siegel). Deogratias: A Tale Christian Huguenot. Governess Congo: A Modern-Day Journey of Rwanda. New York: First Films, Inc., 2006. (66 min.) This into the Heart of Darkness. New Second, 2006. Grades 10 and up. documentary follows five women in York: Three Rivers Press, 2000. Set in Rwanda before and after the Niger, West Africa suffering from While primarily a travel book Tutsi genocide, and seen through obstetric fistula and a U.S. - Niger describing the experiences of the eyes of a young Hutu boy, this medical mission working to repair journalist Tayler as he sets off down graphic novel reveals the grip of their fistulas to give them a second the Congo River in a dugout canoe, madness and horror on one young chance at a normal life.