"(They) took me to an area beyond the village where they raped me. Once they had finished they half strangled me but the left. Other girls were also raped. After the rape, we all fled to Goma. We had to walk for two days and nights through the forest."
This is one case of many hundreds of thousands. Women who have been raped by soldiers and not in some distant dark corner of history but now in this 'enlightened century; this the twenty first century.
In peacetime rape is a crime and is punishable as such. Why is it that during wars this detestable horror is being overlooked?
"It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern conflict."
This is the age of satellite TV, home computers, qualifications to make Einstein blink. And still men are allowed to rape during war with impunity.
The United Nations have passed a Resolution (1820) that outlaws rape and makes rape a war crime. This is not enough. All governments throughout the world must recognise this law and act upon it now.
"An officer ordered five of his men to take her to a nearby cowshed. Three shots were heard. Villagers found her naked body after the security forces left the village. Bloodstains on her discarded clothes and underwear indicated that she had been raped before she was killed."
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