The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
1999-2000

Liisa K. Hyvarinen
Tampa, FL
Website: www.silentscreams.tv

TOPIC: Suicide causes, and prevention and support resources

Women and Children First
"My baby reminds me of bad things but I love her. She is all I have." Olive Uwera, who lives in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, says she thinks women who are raped in the United States are lucky because usually they don't get AIDS and can still have more children.

One of the Hunted: Journalist Member of Persecuted Tutsis Survives Danger to Continue Reporting on Rwandan Atrocities.
'Every time I go to the memorial sites and see the skulls, I can't help myself. Every time I look at them, I cry because I remember my daughter, who was killed during the genocide. So maybe her skull is somewhere, but I don't know where.' 

Journal: Rwanda Eight Years Later
During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that left an estimated one million people dead and some 250,000 women raped and mutilated as part of the systematic effort to destroy Rwanda's ethnic Tutsi minority, I was a TV news producer in transition switching from one job to the next between Tennessee and South Carolina.

Documentary Delves Where Few Want to Go
The following article, by Eric Deggans, comments on Liisa Hyvarinen's documentary, Silent Screams. Liisa was a 1999 - 2000 Fellow.

Special report on Surgeon General's Teen Suicide Initiative
On Ten News at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, anchor Sue Zelenko brought you a story the Surgeon General's new initiative on fighting the increasing numbers of teen suicide. The following is a transcript of the broadcast version of this special report.