An estimated 200,000 children were conceived as a result of mass rape during the genocide in Rwanda in mid-1994. The Interahamwe, the Hutu militia, went around deliberately raping minority Tutsi women. Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik–working with editors and a cameraman–chronicled the experiences of some of these women (they now face rejection from fellow Tutsis) in his project, “Intended Consequences”. The multimedia project that resulted–first put online in 2008–was awarded a prestigious duPoint Columbia Journalism Award this past week.
It was the first web-based production to win a duPont Award.
The video, above, is an excerpt from a video slideshow that you can watch in full (14 minutes) here.
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