My name is Anne-Marie and I am a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. I was born in 1967. After the genocide I was determined to do anything for the sake of my son. We stayed at an orphanage for five months until we went back to the town where we used to live. I had to start all over again. Even today the sadness does not end. The thought... More

Penpa attended the Lhasa protests in March 1989. He was subsequently captured and tortured. Hear what he has to say about his time in captivity and why he has decided to share his story. More

Mony was almost 18 and living in Phnom Pehn when the Khmer Rouge came to power. She now lives in Philadelphia with her husband.   This interview is a part of a collaborative effort between 3 Generations and The Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia (ASRIC). For more information on ASRIC please visit their website. More

Roger Pin was 19 years old when the Cambodian genocide occurred. He now lives in Philadelphia and remains involved in journalism.  He is the founder of the bilingual, East Coast edition of the Khmer Post and continues to train future journalists as he did in Cambodia.   This interview is a part of a collaborative effort between 3 Generations and the Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia (ASRIC). For more information on ASRIC please visit their website. More

Ngawang Sangdrol is a Tibetan nun who was first arrested at age 13 by the government of the People's Republic of China for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. At age 15 she was rearrested for staging a peaceful pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa.  Her sentence was repeatedly extended as she continued to protest in prison. She was released from prison in October 2002 and currently resides in New Y... More

The ongoing problems affecting the Acholi include heath and welfare issues as a result of longterm dislocation in camps, the trauma of lives as soldiers for the thousands of children who were kidnapped, and the consequences of massive rapes among the girls and women. Reintegration to something resembling normal life is difficult to impossible. The human, cultural and social relationships that have held the Acholi people together for generations have broken down. With so many in IDP (Internatinoally Displaced Pers... More

Sokhom Chum is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide. He now lives in Carrollton, Texas in the United States. The interview is the first collaboration between 3G and Khmer Legacies and is a part of an ongoing series of interviews of survivors from Cambodia. For more information on Khmer Legacies please visit their website. More

Monica Chum is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide. She now lives in Carrollton, Texas with her husband, and fellow surivor, Sokhom Chum. This interview is a collaboration between 3G and Khmer Legacies and is a part of an ongoing series of interviews of survivors from Cambodia.  For more information on Khmer Legacies please visit their website. More

Patrick was 14 years old when the genocide began and as a result “had a pretty good idea” of what was happening. He survived a series of dramatic and threatening encounters with Hutu militias over weeks, living thanks to an amazing amount of luck and smart moves by himself and his mother. Yet they “lived in total trauma for months” and witnessed “endless death.”  He was rescued by the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) and eventually moved to safety... More

My name is Freddy and I was 18 years old at the time of the genocide. I lived with my parents and four sisters in Kibuye. We were all very happy together. My Mum was the person I loved most in the whole world. I still remember everything she used to do – perhaps because I was by her side all the time. She was a very kind and generous parent, very sociable, with lots of friends. She used to tell me, “Li... More

The conflict in Congo, often referred to as Africa’s World War, has its roots in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. After Tutsi soldiers seized power, ending the genocide, 2 million Hutu Rwandans, many of them perpetrators, poured over the border into Congo (then Zaire). There, Hutu rebels reassembled as the Rassemblement Démocratique pour le Rwanda (RDR). The RDR began conducting cross-border assaults back into Rwanda... More

Thirty years after the genocide, as the trial of Khmer Rouge leaders begins, there is hope that justice in the courtroom may bring a sense of healing to the people of Cambodia. But the violence of the past lives invisibly on, in the memories of survivors, and in the land itself: Cambodia is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. 1. Choun Sath Choun Sath was born in 1950 in Prey Veng Province. In 1972, a lan... More

I’m 15 years old. My name is Josephine. Josephine is my name. While we were sleeping, very early in the morning, around three o’clock, we heard gunshots so we fled In the place where I fled I came across three soldiers and each of them took me as if I were his wife. I left with the soldiers into the forest. The last took me and then gave me his bottles to carry. I spent four and a half months in the forest Wh... More

Francine was 10 years old when the genocide occurred. She saved herself and rescued her four younger brothers one of whom was a baby she carried on her back: “only God knows our lives.” Francine eventually found help at The Kigali Memorial Center. She received money for school fees and food and managed to get a university education. She is still the head of her household and is helping her brothers through school. Francine Uwamahor... More

Adam Moussa was born in Bindi See in West Darfur. Since 2004 he and his family have been dislocated to a refugee camp in Chad. His translations and interviews for The Devil Came on Horseback provided some of the most powerful testimony for that film and the entire movement to publicize the on-going genocide in Darfur. This interview was filmed in a refugee camp in Eastern Chad for the award-winning documentary... More

John Fransman is a founder of The Child Survivors Association of Great Britain. He was born in Amsterdam three weeks before the Second World War began, to a large Anglo-Dutch Jewish family. He is a child survivor of the Holocaust. In June 1943 his family was rounded up and removed to Westerbork, a camp on the Dutch-German border. Westerbork had originally been built to accommodate Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. By... More

I was born on August 28th, 1912, the youngest of the six children. My father was a respected, successful trade route merchant in Aintab [Celicia], Turkey and my family consisted of six children and my parents. We were a very pious, Christian family, proud and patriotic in our Armenian heritage. Yet we were second-class citizens in Turkey. As Armenian Christians, we had three choices to exist, change our religion t... More

Umsha, 15, and Zeynep, 20, are sisters from southern Darfur. They have four brothers and four sisters, and Umsha has two children. In their village, they grew millet, tomatoes, yams and onions. They had 100 cows, 150 goats, 10 donkeys and 3 horses. The janjaweed came on camels and horses at one in the morning. The family heard helicopters and guns. The janjaweed burned the houses. Their fire came from matches. The... More

Aisha and Zainep are sisters from Donkey Desera in south Darfur. In Donkey Desera, theirs was a farming family, with four donkeys, seven goats, and one hundred chickens. They used to sell their goods at the local souk. One morning, they woke up to the sound of donkeys screaming. It was 5 am. They heard men enter the village on camels, they heard them setting fire to the houses and farms. They heard helicopters, they ... More

Organizations will be trying to find the mines forever. I was born in Srok Svay Tieb. I am 50 years old. On October 10th in 1979, 30 years ago, I was walking down the road to get some fish and some rice for the family to eat. I didn’t know there were mines where I was walking and suddenly one blew up under my legs. The one I stepped on was on a battlefield between Pol Pot and Lon Nol. They put mines down all over, and ... More

If he hadn’t lied, I would be dead. In December of 1982, the government proclaimed that the citizens in Cambodia, like me, were to go to the country to cut down trees We were cutting the forests to break the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge were in the mountains, and the mountains had many, many trees. The day I went, the train took a lot of people, the whole province, not just my village. We all rode the train about ... More