this is an excerpt from that article, for those who can't bear the whole thing.
"When a woman is raped, it's not just her that's raped. It's the entire community that's destroyed," says Judithe Registre, who is with an organization called "Women for Women." They run support groups for survivors of rape.
"When they take a woman to rape her, they'll line up the family, they'll line up other members of the communities to actually witness that," Registre says. "They make them watch. And so, what that means for that particular woman when it's all over, is that total shame, personally, to have been witnessed by so many people as she's being violated."
Many of the women in Dr. Mukweges hospital are not only blamed for what happened to them, they are shunned because of fears theyve contracted HIV and shunned because their rapes were so violent they can no longer control their bodily functions."........................................
............................"Strength is something that few women in Congo lack. They bear the burdens, farm the fields, and hold the families together, yet nothing it seems is being done to protect them.
The war is so widespread that rapes are increasingly being committed by civilians. A few washed out billboards tell men that rape is wrong, but theres little evidence Congolese officials take the problem seriously.
In the prosecutor's office, the complaints pile up. We were told a $10 bribe could get a rape accusation investigated, but few cases ever go to court.
We asked the prosecutor to show us the prison, to see how many rapists were actually behind bars, but when we got there, we were in for a surprise. The prison had no fences, and the guards had been kicked out. The inmates had taken over the asylum.
"The fact is the justice system is on its knees in Congo," says Van Woudenberg, the human rights investigator. "I can count on one hand the number of cases that we're aware of that have been brought to trial. Literally here people get away with rape, they get away with murder. The chances of being arrested are nil.""
I know that this is not Somalia, but it is very close, and they use the same tactics. I wonder if once they have killed off all the women, it will occur to them to wonder "What now?"