“Eastern Congo has been called the “rape capital of...

Par Maaarine

“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.”

“The people I spoke to this time related organized rape camps, with daily roll-calls. There was a new efficiency in the rape, it had become an integrated part of the rebel forces lives. As these women told me, it was now systematic.”

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.

“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.

CNN