Congo: “The rape we’re seeing here is brutal”
Posted by The IRC on January 16th, 2008
 Photo: Peter Biro/The IRC |
 Public Radio International’s The World interviewed Sarah Mosely (left), IRC Gender Based Violence coordinator, about sexual violence and the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo last Wednesday.
“The rape we’re seeing here is brutal. Most of the women are gang-raped,” Mosely said. “Often they are mutilated in the process to the extent they will not be able to have children again or become incontinent so the physical wounds incurred by these rapes are severe and life threatening often.” Listen to the story here and read the full interview with Sarah here. You can also learn more about the “war against women” in Congo in Anderson Cooper’s report on 60 Minutes on Sunday. |
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January 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Si bien es cierto que la situación humanitaria en RD del Congo, como en otros países africanos es verdaderamente lamentable, mucho haríamos los países desarrollados o en desarrollo si en lugar de practicar la “caridad” no buscamos implantar en nuestros propios países instrumentos honrados, justos e imparciales para salucionar los problemas internos de justicia social.
Esta conducta repercutiría favorablemente en esos países africanos.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I am so glad my friend has made it to Texas from DRCongo. She has a beautiful new baby girl–born a US citizen. They are safe. She has no family, only a husband in Congo. We in Church of Jesus Christ are now her family.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:25 am
This is real, people are experiencing this and they are feeling this in this bones. It’s chocking!
March 29th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
hi,
having spent 5 years (1966-1970) as a young engineer in MANONO, Katanga, I am interested in knownig what the situation is there today.
Who can help me in finding out ?
April 9th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
what can we do about it, what can we do to lessen these womens suffering and create for them better lives
April 13th, 2008 at 2:26 am
From my comfortable and secure life here in Australia, my heart bleeds for the women in Congo who have endured so much fear and brutality. I would like to be able to do something for even one girl or woman who has suffered at the hands of rapists. It is totally apalling and wicked. What do I do?
June 5th, 2008 at 9:51 am
The end of violence in RDC?????
you must accept to see our governements, industries politics as they really are.
WEAPONS (TANKS ETC.) are produced in industrial countries as Belgium, USA Germany China etc. WEAPONS need marketS. . These weapons need to be sold. GUESS WHERE?
The mineral richneses of the grounds in RDC are causing the death of millions and millions of congolese WOMEN children en men. Who needs uranium? not the civilian farmers from east Congo or Bas Congo etc.!!!!
Our governements need the gold the diamants the coltan le cuivre et l’étain etc. What for? just for the nuclear industries electronic the aéro spacial researches and trips in space etc..
DO YOU THINK SOMETHING CAN CHANGE IN EAST-RDC?
KAGAME (got a special military training in the US (YOU CAN CHECK THE INFORMATION)in the years just before the 1994 “ruandish” genocide.
(800.000 deaths ) WHAT ABOUT THE MORE THAN 5 MILLIONS OF CIVILIANS killed and tortured in R(D?)CONGO?
Even today civilians are killed by “people” who lost humanity longtime ago. They tasted blood in 1994 etc. They can do anything. Their conscience is gone long ago.
Some congolese soldiers (speaking lingala)in the forest rape their own brothers and sisters from East Congo.
There are the diffferent fractions of soldiers (speakin kinjarwanda the language in Rwanda)the ones who were trained to kill as many people as possible.
You have NKUNDABATWARE (a friend of Kagame and J. Kabila) KAGAME is USED and PROTECTED bY the US.
1994-2008: 1 4 Y E A R S!!! of terror and attrocities for the peacefull farmers, village people who were with no guns or LANCE ROCKETTES. The second world war lasted +/- 5 years. The Vietnam invasion by the us lasted for 9 years (1964-1973)
The international have to be informed that here in Belgium for exemple the national television waited the longest they could to, show during only a few minutes (2,3) part, the reality of the people still alive in East-Congo. STILL alive but for how long.
It’s a bit like in Europe in 39-45:
- massive destruction of millions of people,
- blacks, métis (between 10.000 and 30.000 blacks where also in “extermination camps”)
- homosexuels,
- opinion and political prisoners,
- resistants,
- bohemians,
- handicapted people,
- juwish community (the majority with +/- 6 millions of death), …
The means used are a bit different since 1993 but when you objectively observe and study the two situations in parralel, you may enderstand something more than what the medium are willing to let us know. Letting us believe that the “east-Congo” violence problem is nearly inexistant.
5 M I L L I O N S civilians (innocent men, women, children, grand parents etc) are death. The job of the killers is still on and won’t stop just like that.
Je souhaite que nos gouvernants, qui eux sont très au courant de ces barbaries perpetrées par ces bras et autres pénis à la peau noire reconnaissent que seuls sans conditionnement sans outillage armes n’auraient jamais pu déclencher et entretenir ces tueries à grande échelle.
De l’Occident ou plutôt des pays industrialisés, ces être de race noire reçoivent des fournitures régulières en arme etc. et ce en échange d’or bradé, de coltan (uranium nucéaire etc).
Au fait il faut aussi savoir que 17.000 hommes “soldats de la pais” FORCES DE LA MONUC stationnés pour 12 mois avec un salaire net de 3.000 euros, ne supportent pas tous l’avstinence sexuelle alors certains pour 1usd (quelques dizaines de centimes d’euros)une fillete prépubère vierge de préférence par peur du sida. Il y a les mamans qui en échande de vivres colis alimentaires doivent parfois accepter un viol dans une benne de leur gros et beaux camions!!! Et de ça les médias ne parlent pas. Il faut en parler. Chacun d’entre nous est responsable de ce silence horrible. Ca fait 14 années que ça dure.
Et lorsque les population survivante traumatisées par une “descente” des bras armés (armes à feux) subsidiés par le monde occidental viennent supplier les hommes de la monuc à quelques km de là en leur disant que les assaillants ne sont pas encore loin qu’il y a moyen de les rattraper et qu’on leur répond “désolé non nous sommes ici comme observateurs” “On ne peut pas agir!” .. Je me dit bizarre …
Et les pions qu’ils ont placés ça et là en Afrique noire n’hésitent pas à sacrifier sans souciller les populations civiles qu’ils sont sensés protèger.
Quand une campagen médiatique grande échelle sur l’ampleur du nombre de mort et l’intensité des barbaries commises. en RDC.???????????? EH OH LA RTBF LA UNE LA DEUX ÇA VOUS DIT????
Leur demander de parler des vrais responsables.
Et vous journalistes, membre des organes de presse (télévision, presse écrite, radios cinéma etc) quand allez vous écrire de façon visible à grand échelle quelque chose de VRAI là dessus ?? quelque chose de vrai sur la situation de votre belle “ancienne” colonie
I know I’m dreaming but … who knows. (by the way I’d be glad to her comments or more info about rdc I’m not fluent in english and I hope I di not make too many mistakes)
Kate