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Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Donald E. Miller<\/a> and Lorna Touryan Miller, Photographs by Jerry Berndt<\/strong>\n \n March 15, 2004<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/a>Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide<\/em><\/strong>
\nDonald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller
\n(Center for Religion and Civic Culture 2004)<\/p>\n

“Do you realize the weight of living with someone who killed your family? Now I am an orphan, I take care of myself and my brethren. We have no food today. I am meeting people who killed my parents, they look down on me. How can I not suffer from trauma?”<\/p>\n

Profoundly affected by the stories of the Rwanda Genocide, in 2002, Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller traveled to Kigali, Rwanda to document the experiences of the orphans of the genocide. Working with the Association des Orphelins Chefs de Menages (AOCM) and a research team of five university students, the authors transcribed and translated 100 interviews with Rwandan orphans. The project is now one of the most systematic oral history archives available.\u00a0This book\u00a0includes excerpts from these poignant interviews.<\/p>\n

Click here to see an online gallery of photos from this book.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to download a PDF of the book.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please contact CRCC to obtain physical copies of this book: crcc@usc.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":881,"featured_media":103035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13,32,17],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","tag-books","tag-donald-e-miller","tag-violence"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOrphans of the Rwanda Genocide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/orphans-of-the-rwanda-genocide-book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide - Center for Religion and Civic Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/orphans-of-the-rwanda-genocide-book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Center for Religion and Civic Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2004-03-15T16:10:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-27T20:41:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2004\/03\/Book-orphans-2.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1950\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1097\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"hkisiel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/orphans-of-the-rwanda-genocide-book\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/orphans-of-the-rwanda-genocide-book\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"hkisiel\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/#\/schema\/person\/6dea852ab0c0f3d2ba3b884d87d3e278\"},\"headline\":\"Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide\",\"datePublished\":\"2004-03-15T16:10:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-27T20:41:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/orphans-of-the-rwanda-genocide-book\/\"},\"wordCount\":5,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/orphans-of-the-rwanda-genocide-book\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2004\/03\/Book-orphans-2.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Books\",\"Donald E. 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