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Leah Chishugi is a Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan genocide, author and humanitarian. She is the founder of the charity Everything is a Benefit, which campaigns on behalf of the survivors of the victims of rape and other human rights abuses during the first and second civil conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Chishugi, who has nine siblings, was at Kigali airport on 6 April 1994 when the president Juvénal Habyarimana, was assassinated In 2010 she wrote, A Long Way From Paradise: Surviving The Rwandan Genocide which is a recounting of her escape from the genocide.

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  • Leah Chishugi (1976) és una supervivent tutsi del Genocidi de Ruanda, escriptora i impulsora d'iniciatives humanitàries. Va fundar l'entitat catitativa Everything is a Benefit, que fa campanyes amb i per als supervivents de les víctimes de violacions i altres violacions dels drets humans que hi va haver durant el primer i el segon conflicte civil a la República Democràtica del Congo (RDC). Va néixer en una família i va créixer amb nou germans. La va marcar estar a l'aeroport de Kigali el 6 d'abril de 1994 quan el president Juvénal Habyarimana va ser assassinat. Va créixer a Goma, una ciutat de la RDC, just a la frontera amb Ruanda. Als disset anys es va traslladar a Ruanda i es va casar i va donar a llum un fill. El 1994 va fugir del genocidi que es va produir a Ruanda en aquell moment i es va refugiar a la Gran Bretanya. El 2008 va tornar a casa per lliurar aliments i medicaments i va espavilar-se amb el que va trobar i va començar a entrevistar supervivents de violacions als pobles que va visitar. Va anar a Bukavu i després a Walungu, en unes circumstàncies difícils, la carretera es va tornar impossible. Va explicar que "els boscos estaven plens de cadàvers" i durant un període de dos mesos va entrevistar aproximadament 500 supervivents de violacions. Va documentar les edats, els noms i els llocs on es van produir els atacs, així com l'etnicitat dels autors. El supervivent més jove que va documentar tenia un any i el més gran tenia noranta anys. A la dècada del 2010 resideix a Londres i treballa com a infermera. El 2010 va escriure, A Long Way From Paradise: Surviving The Rwandan Genocide (Un llarg camí des del paradís, sobreviure al genocidi de Ruanda) que és un relat de com es va escapar del genocidi. (ca)
  • Leah Chishugi is a Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan genocide, author and humanitarian. She is the founder of the charity Everything is a Benefit, which campaigns on behalf of the survivors of the victims of rape and other human rights abuses during the first and second civil conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Chishugi, who has nine siblings, was at Kigali airport on 6 April 1994 when the president Juvénal Habyarimana, was assassinated Chishugi, who currently resides in London and works as a nurse, grew up in Goma, a city in the DRC, just inside the border with Rwanda. When she was seventeen she moved to Rwanda and married, and gave birth to a son. In 1994 she fled the genocide which was occurring in Rwanda at the time and went to Britain as a refugee. In 2008 she returned home to deliver food and medicine, and appalled by what she found, she began to interview survivors of rape in the villages she visited. Chishugi hired transport in Bukavu and then traveled to Walungu, when the road became impossible to use she walked. She has said that "The forests were littered with corpses" and over a two-month period she interviewed roughly 500 survivors of rape. She documented the ages, names and locations of where attacks had occurred, as well as the ethnicity of the perpetrators. The youngest survivor she documented was one year old, and the eldest was ninety. In 2010 she wrote, A Long Way From Paradise: Surviving The Rwandan Genocide which is a recounting of her escape from the genocide. (en)
  • Leah Chishugi, née en 1976 est une congolaise survivante tutsie du génocide rwandais, également autrice et humanitaire. Elle est la fondatrice de l'association caritative Everything is a Benefit, qui milite au nom des survivantes des viols durant les guerres civiles au Congo et autres atteintes aux droits humains lors des premier et deuxième conflits civils en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). (fr)
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  • Leah Chishugi, née en 1976 est une congolaise survivante tutsie du génocide rwandais, également autrice et humanitaire. Elle est la fondatrice de l'association caritative Everything is a Benefit, qui milite au nom des survivantes des viols durant les guerres civiles au Congo et autres atteintes aux droits humains lors des premier et deuxième conflits civils en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). (fr)
  • Leah Chishugi (1976) és una supervivent tutsi del Genocidi de Ruanda, escriptora i impulsora d'iniciatives humanitàries. Va fundar l'entitat catitativa Everything is a Benefit, que fa campanyes amb i per als supervivents de les víctimes de violacions i altres violacions dels drets humans que hi va haver durant el primer i el segon conflicte civil a la República Democràtica del Congo (RDC). El 2010 va escriure, A Long Way From Paradise: Surviving The Rwandan Genocide (Un llarg camí des del paradís, sobreviure al genocidi de Ruanda) que és un relat de com es va escapar del genocidi. (ca)
  • Leah Chishugi is a Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan genocide, author and humanitarian. She is the founder of the charity Everything is a Benefit, which campaigns on behalf of the survivors of the victims of rape and other human rights abuses during the first and second civil conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Chishugi, who has nine siblings, was at Kigali airport on 6 April 1994 when the president Juvénal Habyarimana, was assassinated In 2010 she wrote, A Long Way From Paradise: Surviving The Rwandan Genocide which is a recounting of her escape from the genocide. (en)
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  • Leah Chishugi (ca)
  • Leah Chishugi (fr)
  • Leah Chishugi (en)
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