Saturday, June 06, 2009

The Congo, a living hell for women as rapists go on the rampage...

 Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, cannot bear to listen to the stories his patients tell him anymore.

Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been raped show up at his hospital. Many have been so sadistically attacked from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair.

“We don’t know why these rapes are happening, but one thing is clear,” said Dr. Mukwege, who works in South Kivu Province, the epicenter of Congo’s rape epidemic. “They are done to destroy women.” More...

See also:

  1. Congo army rapes, robs and kills civilians...
  2. DR Congo: activists slam global indifferance to world's biggest "rape mine..."
  3. Congo, the "worst place" to be a woman or a child...
  4. The Coltan War...

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