Posted on 11/25/2011 10:15:16 PM PST by Steelfish
Why Eastern DR Congo Is 'Rape Capital of The World' By Fiona Lloyd-Davies November 25, 2011
Masika is a survivor of the conflict in the DRC and a rape victim. She has set up a center where other survivors can come for sanctuary when they have nowhere else to go.
Eastern Congo has been called the "rape capital of the world" Writer has noticed disturbing trend of generational rape Dr. Mukwege, a general surgeon, works tirelessly to repair women damaged by rape
Editor's note: Award-winning film maker Fiona Lloyd-Davies is one of the UK's most experienced foreign documentary and current affairs program makers. She has been making films about human rights issues in areas of conflict since 1992. She writes for CNN as part of special coverage on the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country heads to the polls on November 28.
(CNN) -- From the first time you step into eastern Congo, you find yourself surrounded by the exotic and extraordinary, be it flora and fauna or the just plain incongruous -- the severed wing of a Russian aircraft stored on the side of the road, or a boy with a gun.
The place is pulsating with the heat and energy of a population of people fighting to survive just one more day. But the violence here is as intense as this intoxicating, heady mix of Africa at its best and worst.
Eastern Congo has been called the "rape capital of the world" by U.N. Special Representative Margot Wallstrom. Reports record that 48 women are raped every hour. I have been working in the region for 10 years and have seen a tragic development in this unpunished crime against the heart of society.
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That's how it is with theft too. It's racist to criticize it because it's all just about the white man imposing his values on the rest of the world. And who are bigoted, sexist, homophobic white people to think their values are superior to those of other cultures? < /multiculturalism rant>
You mean it isn’t rape, rape?
Consider the ones not reported.. or sometimes even NOTICED..
I knew the article would be tough reading but it’s...well...even more brutal than I imagined???
“Women told me of their daily choice — to stay at home and face starvation. Or, go out to the fields for food and be raped. Most women chose the latter. It had become the norm.”
or
“Like so many women survivors, she too was rejected when she and her two teenage daughters were raped by militia men. Her husband was murdered in front of her, chopped up and she was forced to eat his private parts.”
or
“Women told me how they expected to be raped. Not once but many times. The women I met, spoke of gang rapes, three or four times. Sometimes it was “only” two soldiers, more often gangs of men,10, 20, over and over again.”
“Many had conceived children and the girl children, some just babies only a few months old, were being raped as well.”
It’s like Hell’s back 40 acres...
With what these people have experienced, they might as well be on another planet from what life is like here in the U.S. Many years ago on FR, I was reading some thread about Africa. I don’t know if it was the thread itself or a link provided, but it led to some of the most disturbing pictures I have seen where blacks were killing whites in either South Africa or Zimbabwe. Some of the pictures were of children, old people. All of it was truly horrific. I don’t know what else to say, but I am so sorry that these women and children live in this hell.
There’s something a little weird about this story. I mean, they talk about the stigma, and how the women are rejected by their communities once they are raped. But if women are being raped at a rate of 48 an hour, how is it that there are any women in the community who HAVEN’T been attacked? How can there be a stigma when it’s happening, presumably, to just about all of them? If the men have been murdered and the women raped, who is left to reject them? This doesn’t make sense.
The congo spring we must have missed and it’s glorious results. One can only expect these same glorious results from the Arab springs. There is a reason why these countries are always under a dictatorship they need to be controlled cause they can’t control themselves and there as dumb as rocks
You are right. Some people cant handle freedom. Without a controlling hand,they become like wild dogs.They need structure and limited choices.
What’s the big deal? It’s just what animals do in the jungle.
Maybe someday they will be domesticated and be able to join the other domesticated animals in our society and obey rules, laws and social norms.
“The Lord’s Resistance Army began life in the early 1980’s as the Holy Spirit Movement, led by a woman called Alice Lakwena who claimed the Holy Spirit had ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan government, which was accused of treating the Acholi people of the North unfairly. As resentment towards the Ugandan government intensified, supporters flocked to Lakwena and the Holy Spirit movement gathered momentum, until a battle won by the government led to Lakwena’s exile.”
what the heck?
While I don’t agree that some people can’t handle freedom, people from many countries will tell you their country is not like the US and requires authoritarian rule.
This is the real threat of multiculturalism. When you decide to celebrate others just as they are, yoju import all kinds of destructive cultural tendencies. IMHO opinion, corruption is a biggie we are importing from foreign cultures.
No God => idol gods => the gamut => barbarism.
“Africa Wins Again”.
I just have one thing to say about this......WELCOME TO OBAMAVILLE!!!!!!
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Who cares...it's your money wasted.
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