Daily Archives: September 25, 2010

Rape in Congo (Zaire)

El Memeyi Murangwa

  9/25/10                                          

victims_of_rape.jpgThe rape is being used as a weapon in the democratic republic of Congo (DRC).  Armed groups and unpaid soldiers rape to terrorize and control women and communities to humiliate families.  

The used of rape as a weapon in Congo is wrong. It should be condemned by the International community who must put a pressure on the Congolese Government to force it to pay salary to unpaid soldiers. The events that happen in Congo should be disclosed; and this is the only way to help those suffering voiceless women and girls.

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