Over 250,000 Displaced As Sexual Violence Erupts In DRC

From Times Online:

‘The first soldiers killed my brother and his son, then I was raped as I fled’

The first soldiers kicked down the door to her house, killed her younger brother, his wife and son.
Then, as Ngiraganga fled barefoot towards safety, she came across the second wave of soldiers.

They asked her for money and when she explained that she had nothing to give they took her clothes, stripping the 42-year-old to her underwear.

The third group of soldiers took all she had left. “They beat me and raped me,” Ngiraganga said quietly in Swahili, sitting in the gloomy office of
They asked her for money and when she explained that she had nothing to give they took her clothes, stripping the 42-year-old to her underwear.

The third group of soldiers took all she had left. “They beat me and raped me,” Ngiraganga said quietly in Swahili, sitting in the gloomy office of a women’s shelter. “They weren’t drunk, just dirty from the fighting.”

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