Human Rights Around the Globe: Congo

In the Congo, “This is the new face of war: Militias going on house to-house rape campaigns; girls as young as five and women as old as 80 shot in the genitals, or mutilated with razor blades; soldiers targeting whole villages for violation.” The Democratic Republic of Congo sees more than 1,150 rapes each day as the savage clash of national armies in internal struggles target women and children. “Sex attacks -pouring melted rubber into women's vaginas, raping children in front of their parents -have become a core military strategy, not only in the Congo, but in conflicts around the world, from Sudan to Burma to Colombia.”

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