For millenia, r a pe has been used as a weapon of terror against women. The women of the Congo are the latest mass victims: hundreds of thousands of women have been raped by looting soldiers in a bloody civil war that has raged since the 1980s.
Melissa MacEwan of Shakespeare's Sister has more. See if you can get through this powerful and disturbing post. I'm sure having trouble finishing it.

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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo won the Sundance Festival award for best documentary. It is being shown on HBO.

ETA: This post has been getting spam due to the four-letter word that begins with R. That's what happens in a r a pe culture.