Being a child born from rape during the genocide against Tutsi: A duality within the Needs-Based Model.

ABSTRACT : Rape of women is one of the common human rights violations that occur during war and genocide. Some of these women become pregnant and subsequently give birth to the children. The children born from rape constitute a challenge to post-war/genocide recovery processes. They belong at the same time to a victim of rape, the mother ; and to the perpetrator, the father. The present article focuses on children born from rape during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. We explore the needs and identity threats these children face, using the Needs Based Model, and the way these needs are translated into different behaviours. This article is based upon a study that included indirect interviews conducted with women who had been raped during the genocide. The findings are not totally consistent with the Need Based Model of the intergroup
reconciliation approach in dual context. The morality-related needs are over the superiority of agency-related needs. Regarding duals‟ behavior, the heightened needs for positive moral image are translated into prosocial behavior, compassion, fleeing the environment which knows them; and desidentification. The heightened needs for agency are translated into anti-social behaviours such us aggressivity, drug abuse and competitive victimhood.
KEY WORDS-Children born from rape, Needs Based Model, prosocial and anti-social behaviour