France, April 8 -- More than 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis, were killed in about 100 days after the assassination of president Juvenal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994, which followed years of ethnic tension. The genocide has left deep scars across Rwanda, destroying families, communities and social bonds.

Sexual violence was used on a vast scale, leaving many women traumatised and many children born of rape facing stigma and rejection. Around 70 percent of the population was born after the genocide, but its impact is still felt in families, in collective memory and through national commemorations.

Mukasarasi is a Hutu woman whose Tutsi husband and one of her children were killed during the genocide, which also targeted moderate Hutus...