Re: Rape The National Sport in Some African Countries!!
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:39 pm
haha says the guy that has tens of thousands of posts in an somali african website 
Bastard gaal
Bastard gaal
ProofThe Nomad wrote:Prove rape is the accepted national sport of any African country or that any nation on Earth explicitly condones it or concede to being a liar.michael_ital wrote:*snip*
Don't waste my time with garbage. Answer the question or be quiet.
Advocates for Congo rape victims brutalized
Assailants `protected' in unprecedented plague of sexual violence
Sep 04, 2009 04:30 AM
Olivia Ward
FOREIGN AFFAIRS REPORTER
Congolese women's rights defender Justine Masika Bihamba was in her car one day last October when her sons, aged 7 and 13, were dragged out by uniformed men and beaten in the street.
It wasn't the first time her family was threatened. A year earlier, six men, reportedly uniformed soldiers, broke into her home in Goma in the lawless eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and tied up Bihamba's six children, before sexually assaulting a daughter.
It was a brutal warning that not only victims of sexual violence, but those who try to support them, are targets in a territory that is the heart of darkness for Africa's women. The level of sexual violence is so extreme the United Nations has called it unprecedented.
Yesterday Bihamba, who co-ordinates the Synergie des Femmes Contre les Violences Sexuelles, took her protest against Congo's war on women to Ottawa.
With Alex Neve, who heads Amnesty International Canada, she handed a petition of 20,000 Canadian signatures to the DRC embassy, urging that the government protect her and the many women who are raped and sexually mutilated in the eastern part of the country.
"My children are badly traumatized," Bihamba said in a phone interview. "But I can't leave DRC. I have to do my work."
There is an ever-increasing amount of work to do, as women are attacked by all sides in a bloody free-for-all in which government troops battle Rwandan militias who have fled across the border to evade justice for the 1994 genocide, ethnic militias clash, and criminal gangs fight each other for the region's mineral wealth.
When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited female victims in the DRC last month, she said she had come face to face with "evil in its basest form."
She pledged $17 million (U.S.) to document sexual violence and train doctors and police – including female officers – to combat the epidemic of rape that often includes sexual torture. By attacking women, the rapists aim to humiliate and break the spirit of their opponents.
But easing the plight of women in the eastern Congo is a task that requires more than a single country's efforts.
Meanwhile, Bihamba's overstretched network of volunteers helps victims get medical help, counselling, legal aid and rehabilitation in communities that may reject them. The group sets up small economic projects, like farming, to give the often-destitute victims an income to survive.
But Bihamba herself has not been able to find justice for the attacks on her family – an example of the impunity that reigns in the eastern Congo, in spite of the government's official opposition to violence against women.
"I've met with people representing military justice," she said. "I was told that the men who did these things are well protected."