Why don't leftist scream about the Congo? Why aren't there any flotillas headed to the Congo? Why aren't they calling for boycotts?
They turn a blind eye, because it's Africa! They will just blame the white man continuously and never stand on their own and take their responsibility for their own actions!
Listen to this. Women EXPECT to get raped everyday. THREE YEAR OLDS get raped! This have rape camps! This is sick shit and sick culture. This is what happens when there is total gun control, when only the government has arms and the people don't!
They turn a blind eye, because it's Africa! They will just blame the white man continuously and never stand on their own and take their responsibility for their own actions!
Listen to this. Women EXPECT to get raped everyday. THREE YEAR OLDS get raped! This have rape camps! This is sick shit and sick culture. This is what happens when there is total gun control, when only the government has arms and the people don't!
Why eastern DR Congo is 'rape capital of the world' - CNN.com
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.
A week hearing terrifying stories of torture and rape. Multiple rapes. Violent, brutal rape. Rape with sticks and guns, even bayonets.
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.
The war continued until 2003, when a peace treaty was signed. Officially, the fighting came to an end, but it didn't stop. Nor did the rape.
I returned to Shabunda in 2005 to find the women I had interviewed and photograph four years earlier. It was an unsettling search, for most of those women had died or disappeared in the forest after an attack, never to be seen again.
The new women I met had similar tales of horror. But there was a twist. 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.
Some years later, in 2009, I returned to make a film about rape and found a disturbing new trend.
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.
Many had conceived children and the girl children, some just babies only a few months old, were being raped as well.
She was a cheerful little girl, it was impossible not to be drawn to her smile.
The nurse saw me playing with her said: "You know she's HIV-positive." She was just three years old. Her twin sister had been killed when she and her mother had been raped. This little girl had been conceived from rape.
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.
Her two daughters Rachel and Yvette were 15 and 13 years old, and both of them conceived children. Masika's husband's family rejected them and she brought her daughters and their babies to a market town hugging the shore of Lake Kivu to try and rebuild their lives.