What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo

What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo

It was in a sickly green, fluorescent-lit meeting room in Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a couple of years ago that someone whispered to me that babies were being gang-raped in a nearby town. I’d been there for many hours listening to the stories of rape survivors for an unrelated article, when a researcher at an international nongovernmental organization described a few details. “They are very tiny. Maybe three and four years old,” she said. “We don’t know how the men are getting into the houses, but they take the girls and no one else wakes up.” The attacks had begun six months prior, in June 2013, and while this is a country rife with sexual violence, the cases were rattling people. These were babies. Tiếp tục đọc “What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo”