{"id":67109,"date":"2024-10-06T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/06\/giles-duley-olive-mutetamfura-rwandan-genocide-survivor-war-photographer-afghanistan"},"modified":"2024-10-06T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T11:00:03","slug":"what-is-it-that-keeps-you-wanting-to-survive-giles-duley-and-rwandan-genocide-survivor-olive-mutetamfura-on-resilience-and-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67109","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What is it that keeps you wanting to survive?\u2019 Giles Duley and Rwandan genocide survivor Olive Mutetamfura on resilience and forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photographer, who lost his legs and an arm in Afghanistan, says the genocide survivor is the \u2018most resilient woman I know\u2019. The pair have teamed up, 30 years after the atrocity, to tell her extraordinary story<\/p>\n<p>In an elegant early Victorian building called the Organ Factory in London\u2019s East End, <a href=\"https:\/\/gilesduley.com\/\">Giles Duley<\/a>, the photographer, presenter, chef and charity CEO, is addressing an event to mark his 53rd birthday and what should have been the visit of Olive Mutetamfura, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOlive is unable to be here because immigration decided to revoke her visa,\u201d he explains to around 100 people, wryly observing that her rejection is \u201ca story that is somewhat appropriate\u201d to the times.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/06\/giles-duley-olive-mutetamfura-rwandan-genocide-survivor-war-photographer-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photographer, who lost his legs and an arm in Afghanistan, says the genocide survivor is the \u2018most resilient woman I know\u2019. The pair have teamed up, 30 years after the atrocity, to tell her extraordinary storyIn an elegant early Victorian building &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2190,92,2286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-charities","category-photography","category-rwanda"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67110,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67109\/revisions\/67110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}