my hands’ he said as he described his ordeal in an interview with BBC as he encouraged more survivors to come forward.
He continued to say, ‘I hid that I was a male rape survivor. I couldn’t open up because it’s a taboo. As a man, I can’t cry. People will tell you that you are a coward, you are weak, you are stupid. They killed my father. Three men raped me, and they said: ‘You are a man, how are you going to say you were raped?’ It’s a weapon they use to make you silent’.
He fled to Uganda in 2011 where got medical help after a physiotherapist treating him for a back problem realized there was more to his injuries. He was taken to see a doctor treating survivors of sexual violence, where he was the only man in the ward.
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