The Greatest Silence: Rape in The Congo (Official Trailer)

[verbaldiarrhoea123]

I WOULD RATHER THE KILL ME AND MY CHILDREN.... THAN FOR THEM TO RAPE ME, OR FORCE ME TO EAT MY CHILDREN...... although with or without a gun, rape would still take place, because they wld rape then kill u........ so u have no choice either way!

[pinkblack04]

Disgusting

[rubi85ful]

i just shocked... r they human???

[karlsmith00]

the male population on earth needs to be reduced. it's the only way to save the planet.

[glennrickard323572]

This is so sad! I cried with those women (and I'm a White man from the USA in my 50's!) as they recounted their horror stories about being repeatedly raped, mutilated, and abused. I want to give those women and girls LOTS OF LOVE, HUGS, AND KISSES and try to make them try to feel good about themselves...They are, at least to me, BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY WOMEN AND GIRLS who clearly deserve much better!

[andremonteiro2008]

what's the name of the song in the beginning of the video? I liked it

[MrJazkiller]

one thing for sure, DON'T go to CONGO!!!!

[Haroldrod]

God .... how sad is this .........

[maahassan]

muslims are the solution

[FaStFoRwArD191]

look at this bullshit, if the US helps people in the middle east we are war hungry, if we dont help, were heartless assholes, liberals disguist me almost as much as this, dont blame th US, blame the UN

[lukasznogaj]

@FaStFoRwArD191 you going to middle east for oil and gas,I think you are to stupid to understand how your country usa working

[FaStFoRwArD191]

@lukasznogaj ur right i guess 9/11 was a bad cause for war

[Sfentami]

@FaStFoRwArD191 awww you poor soul! And who, exactly, do you think controls the UN? And when did the US HELP people in the Middle East? Anyway, here's a wake-up cal for you, the world doesn't revolve about the States, though we all know you think so.

[FaStFoRwArD191]

@Sfentami libya? have u never seen the news cast when the people in the mddle east are thanking the U.S. for liberating? The UN is a collection of independent nations all working together with an equal portion of control. Just becuase they meet in New York and it was set by a U.S. president, granted it was one of the most liberal and insane of all time, doesnt mean it is controlled by us, remember it was set up after world war 2? Your the problem in the world i want you to know that

[Sfentami]

@FaStFoRwArD191 Well, I guess I have to thank you for giving me a good laugh. Better check your stuff again, you're too naieve. Last chance....'who controls both the US and the UN?" that's a rhetorical question, FYI.

[FaStFoRwArD191]

@Sfentami can u please make a point. im so sick of sick liberal bastards like who think trying to sound condescending will prove your argument valid

[Sfentami]

@FaStFoRwArD191 that's exactly my point, you don't get the point. Watch "Who killed John O'Neill?" to begin with, hopefully it'll help you out of your dream. Sorry for sounding condescending, but your attitude towards world politics provokes me.

[dharmaatdawn]

@Sfentami Us "controls" UN security council.

[kendrat199]

this is so hard to watch but it must be done. I don't know what can be done about this issue because it has escalated to a point of almost no return. I hope and pray that we can help these women and the children and, teach the men, who are responsible for these atrocities what Rape does psychologically to a human being and put in place punishments for those that commit such crimes.

[TheMoncheri86]

poor women!!!! :((((((((

[libbeingcool]

the soldiers are disgusting monkeys, poor women have to suffer so much

[Redbullskull]

what an ape country

[dysoncrystal]

This type of stuff is why I am scared to go to Africa

[pres880]

@dysoncrystal omg for real? u know its fucked up shit in every country.

[highlander2583]

excacly, i have a lot of time when it comes to unfair practices and abuse in this world..

and unreosonable comments does not make it easier..

[xoMuslimah]

@highlander2583 listen ...you clearly have a lot of time on your hands....all i'm saying is women need to better educate their sons more about this issue. My religion is bad to women....and your religion is good to women???? I'll believe it when you come with the proof ..Whatever hop off dude .

[bjrneri]

nr 66666

[xoMuslimah]

If women taught their sons about the horrors of rape and the pain it causes women and raised their sons to be good humans then this wouldn't happen. I mean these rapists were once toddlers if you think of it. If the Mothers raise these children to be good humans they wouldn't rape their mothers, sisters, daughters etc. There is more to raising a child than feeding it. If they start teaching the young children now in a few years when the rebels die out so will this horrific behavior.

[highlander2583]

@xoMuslimah you are just a narrowminded person who thinks that someone's sins can be blamed on another person.. mothers DO raise their children to be good humans, its male ''examples'' in the society that have no respect for the females and that inherit little boys from small age to treat women badly.. i can see your religious background from your nickname, so that explains your absolutely stupid opinion!!!

[xoMuslimah]

@highlander2583 First off you are so narrow minded for thinking that my religion has anything to do with this comment Idk what religion u follow but I choose not to blame your religion for your stupidity.

secondly maybe you should learn to read because I never said women were the sole problem I said they are part of the problem okay. I don't believe their sins can be blamed on anyone but them. Get a life you idiot...you can't even comprehend my comment and yet you want to respond? special ed.

[highlander2583]

@xoMuslimah .read the first sentence of your first comment, how does it not blame mothers??and anyway, have you been sitting next to them and seeing what they been teaching them?? have you got any idea how they been raised at all.. of course not, so stop putting empty judgements on actual victims (the mothers= females..)

and by the way your religion has got a lot to do with your views of life/whats wrong/right, whats good/bad... and your religion is not fair towards the women at all!

[luscioussensual]

@xoMuslimah a woman can teach her sons about rape, but what if the father is saying the opposite? It can still happen even if the mothers raise thier kids to be good humans, because they come under influence of other people. Its not a woman's job alone to raise a kid. Maybe the father can help too

[19HurdyGurdyMan46]

Couldn't see much of this because of my tears.This is just so appauling, but people must see this.

[MadameMorticia1706]

I feel sick when I think about these horrific crimes against young girls, women, even old women. COWARDS crimes against the defenseless, against women and young children.

[AdorableAdam]

only a coward would rape a woman

[freebearride]

welllll obviously we have a rapist in the congo!

[TreAldMatVideo]

fuck them you get black baby mixed if white man.

[rhondapattrick]

i heard about this but looking at it here its hard to take i wish i could save them and shoot all those bastards that hurt these poor people

[Zev121]

This has been happening for thousands of years. That is just "how they are" and now we have to put a !@#$%^ load of money to change "their ways".

The same thing happens in the US, just go to a "hood" near any MLK blvd.

[JDubs878]

Africa is the shithole of the world. Everything the world does to try and help is like trying to stop a dam from breaking with your finger.

Even after all this time, only some Africans have progressed while the majority are still poor and violent. There's just no hope. Most of Africa just takes, takes, takes without producing much while at the same time destroying their own lands.

I really wish the Africans would just get it and stop killing their own chances of survival and prosperity. =/

[Oyin26]

@JDubs878 ignorance comment right there...please make note of the fact that americans and the west are PROFITTING off of the coltan and other natural resources which fuel these wars...the natural resources USED to supply power to the very computer you are typing from have FUELED this war...so please the african people are no more or less moral than the criminals who steal their resources that fuel these wars...

[somebody434]

@Oyin26 oh, so it is white peoples fault tens of thousands of women in congo have been raped. you have got to be kidding me.

[Oyin26]

@somebody434 i beg your pardon...i don't recall mentioning wp in any of my recent comments on this video...i think i mentioned the "West" but last i checked "white people" weren't the only ethnic group to live in the west...

[ashken79]

BY now 6 million have died!

[brick4sale]

I don't understand what are these beasts even fighting for?

[Oyin26]

@brick4sale its a resource war...its complicated but what is going on is clearly a human rights violation and unacceptable and the west largely sits back and does nothing, except steal more resources...

[xoxoxoxAnnAxoxoxox]

this has really opened my eyes.

im going to do a speach about this at school. and hopefully help these people to be heared, if they are condemed to silence we need to speak for them.

[tyajit79]

Militery is good and Bad also Indian Army which called Shantisena also raped lot of Tamil women and girls and kill so many innocent Tamil citizens in Srilanka on 1987 while the Period ofPrime Minister Lt. Mr Rajiv Gandhi .

Russian raped 10000 of German Women in 2nd world war and German Natzi raped uncountable  Jews , Polish , Romanian and Gypsy women .

The History of WORLD IS HISTORY OF WOMENS TEARS .

[Zev121]

@tyajit79

sure, tell that to my ex-wife and see how she laughs at you.

[somebody434]

@tyajit79 German Nazi raped jews? No statistics to back that up.

[tyajit79]

In 1947 While India and Pakistan devide atlist 40,00,000 Hindu People were Killed by Pakistani Muslim and Millions of Hindu women were Kidnapped and raped and sold in Pakistan for Prostitution .That time Bloody USA & Uk was with Pakistan till he with them .

USA and Uk did nothng that time for Hindus .

All the Problem in the world is borned by USA & Uk only .

[Calsummersishere]

How can this be happening? These people must be helped. Where is God?

[smilehimself]

@Calsummersishere In our imagination it would seem. Because if God is God then He must have made imperfect creatures capable of horrible things...And no perfect God would do that would He? We are doing this to ourselves because we haven't evolved ethicly past our ape ancestors. But now there are so many of us and we have technology...

[Oyin26]

@smilehimself people choose to do the wrong things, you've got a choice to do evil or not, people choose to do evil it's a simple as that...

[jenngerosa]

We may not be able to solve the conflict of the war, but our contributions can certainly bring justice to victims of rape, and in turn give them and their children a life in which they can sustain themselves independently, redefining the role of women in the Congo. For all those asking how to help, the two largest factors in helping these women are "Women for Women International" and the Panzi Hospital. Donations are the most accessible way to help them receive medical care and an education.

[eal1011]

Very sad no woman deserved to be raped, murded and silence. Very sad. Is horrible crime and very sad and horrible.

[TheDebdens]

They are nothing but wild uneducated morons they should be shot, not fathering other children. These poor women are suffering at the hands of these rebels, you cant even call them animals, animals are better behaved. They torture and kill, the same should be done to them, everyone of them.

[uwldluvme21]

You can help stop it... look online many organizations that have people go in and actually rescue them. If u rlly want to u can help, ppl just lazy and wld rather watch lil wayne n drake

[ThaddeusMarcum]

What is the classical song at the end of this trailer?

[liuliuxo]

this is fucking retarded, people from across the world are filming this and INTERVIEWING these people. no one is trying to help. whats the point of commenting on this video and talk shit if we cant do anything to help? the congo soldiers said they rape woman because it helps them at war, how the fuck does making them eat their own children help??

[leslieperks]

What can we do to stop it?

[MrPoppop55]

Why is the western news media silent about thousands of people losing their lives weekly? What hipocrites and liars we Americans are. Those people aren't human so they have no true value but, the land they occupy, now that's another story. Shame on us all.

[DocoDendotcom]

Way to make a gross generalization of over 300,000,000 people....

[wawazup]

this is just wickedness. rebels feeding off the vulnerability of the people and nobody does anything. i hope they feel some shame.

[lthom33]

Not sure of what movie you're talking about but this is a documentary by Lisa Jackson who is a rape victim herself. I watched it on HBO and it broke my heart.

[Volunteerismylife]

Hello folks,

please somebody can tell me What´s the name of the doctor helping all these women? Dennis....

[helloimbert90]

I believe it is Dr. Denis Mukwege.

[GoldenFireReviews]

I think you should title this video "The Disease of Rape - Silent Murderer of Our Souls and Destroyer of Our Lives." Rape is a disease and it has infested the minds and hearts of men who perpetrate these crimes. You can only stop the crime of rape when you change the hearts and minds of those who commit the acts. 'STOP THE WAR CRIMES"!

[carouselnights]

This made me cry, what is happening is disgusting, more countries around the world need to stand up - unified as a global village and stop such monstrosity. Raise awareness, we are are global citizens and the worse thing to do is stay silent. Otherwise, we are all letting our world become the corrupt jungle it is today.

[Chamelionroses]

Sad this is all over the world. So usually the women and children get hurt first. Mostly the children. So not cared about as much as it should be this way.

[palakuzhiyil]

we have put an end to such crime against humanity

[KMELIZ21]

this is sooo sad, I cannot wait to be done with graduate school so I can devote sometime in Africa, and hopefully contribute to making it a better place!

[Alexmacneil1]

The only reason the US would go to war in the congo is to gain control of the coltran, they don't give a shit about the people

[DocoDendotcom]

What's your point? Has Canada been doing an exceptionally large amount? Are you guys going to war? =\

I mean at least this is an American documentary... which from what I've seen has likely done more for these women than anything Canada has done. As for the war itself neither of our countries are playing any leading role in it, neither are most first-world countries. Why single out the US?

[bukavu1]

@Alexmacneil1 they are already represented there, they are supplying and supporting fighters. check congovideos com for more videos

[Questpeace]

There must be war to end things like this.

[PacifistBen]

so you name yourself "Questpeace" and still recommend WAR to solve problems started by violence?! let's see when are all social barriers destroyed, people dehumanized so that somebody could even get the idea of raping another human being? Oh right, now I remember in times of WAR!!!

When will you people ever learn that you can't fight fire with fire?

[Questpeace]

War is and always be. Sometimes rightfully so. I'm pretty sure it worked on the Nazi's so why wont it work on this unflinching evil?

[PacifistBen]

Already Herodot thought like this and was wrong. Read Micah 4 to have a different view at war.

How do you determine a war is just?

Just war is just killing, just murder, just destruction, just bombing, just rape...

"I'm pretty sure it worked on the Nazi's... " - why is the only argument of those for just war always the Nazis?

Yes, in WWII the Allied freed Germany, and I'm glad they did. But they could also have supported the German Resistance and it wouldnt have come so far!

[PacifistBen]

oh to go on: in the video description it already proves your pointlessness "Shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, this film breaks the silence surrounding the tens of thousands of women and girls who have been kidnapped, raped and sexually tortured in that country's intractable civil war. The filmmaker, herself a survivor of gang rape, talks with activists, peacekeepers, physicians and with the rapists themselves." So THIS is a better solution: reconsiliation.

[Questpeace]

No, the UN or the US should intervene and end the conflict. You cannot change the minds of extreamists.

[PacifistBen]

If you think like this, I probably cannot change your (extremist) mind by saying things like: US tortures people, in every war zone soldiers are traumatized by their experiences so they rape women, kill innocents ...

i don't get it you can watch this video and STILL be for war...

those "extremists" are also victims, in one part of the video a boy says: "that BOY raped me" - his rapist was a child soldier!! war is not the solution against evils of war - love to our enemies is.

God bless you.

[Questpeace]

Everyone brings up the Nazi's because they are one of the true forces of evil that could not be stopped by any other way. Hitler was playing Europe and taking everything he wanted if everyone just stood around we'd be under Nazi control right now. Pacifism's great, but there is a time for war and a time for peace.

[immayhem]

this happens all over the world - wherever there is war or corruption. men at war create the condition for rape. it always happens.

'questpeace'?

[theeironman]

People of the Western World we have to stand up and do something. The least we can do is make other people aware of this problem. Please bring attention to this , i will start by posting this on facebook. THIS IS WRONG!!!!!!!

This should never happen, without a woman there can be no life and this is how these women are treated???

[KelsiieKetamine]

What the fuck is wrong with our society , our world , and the people in it . This disgusts me .

[cmh1689]

so true, i started watching like 15 minutes of this and i had to stop

[19dec1981]

i know people and have friends that been to the congo and they told me the situation there its hopeless.

devastating!

[MissBloodyMew]

:/

So wrong..

[DutchessMaria]

Unbelievable....just unbelievable!

It is up to the women to stick together and fight against this.

If it wasn't for the weapons once again, these soldiers could not have had the power.

The weapon industry is flourishing!

[TorresD]

At 3:03

"If she says no, I must take her by force.

If she is strong, I'll call some friends

to help me."

The Rapist=The Decider.

He decides to Rape, a mother, a sister,

a daughter, a child.

It is the decision of the Rapist.

He has the final say so, whether to spare

a life or take it.

[TorresD]

At 3:19

"They kill our children and then they

tell us to eat those children."

The Rapist

[TorresD]

At 1:30.

"Usually they don't want to do it,

but if anyone resist, I use my gun to

get what I want."

The Rapist.

[TorresD]

In the end, it comes to the decision,

on the ground, that men make.

The rapist is the final decider.

Regardless of what other scenarios can

be brought into place, it is his decision,

to rape, to attack that woman.

He can turn away, help her, carry that

firewood, but he decides that attacking

her is better.

He does not have to rape.

[veryfunny125]

is there like a giving organization that gives directly to these women? I want to help them.

[sweetpeas1216]

The guys should all be raped

[ren0987]

Lisa Jackson is cool. Buy her DVD.

[alfonsomatamoros]

I think that finish this is,, is a lot more important that a war in Irak or Afghanistas..

[mullemeckish]

Its a brutal way of controlling but these things occure everyday alla around africa. One way of really fight this is to educate the people so that they can build a real sociaty without rebelgroups that are relying in diffrent tribal religion. Ignorance is what africa is suffering from, if Africa wouldnt be the stepping stone for the rest of the world then Afric awould be free from genocide, rape, and other types of daily suffering.

[mullemeckish]

This doesnt only occure in Congo, but in Africa in whole. You can specualte why these thing occure, but its a way for the guerilla soldiers to keep fear and control of the villages.

[TorresD]

Why are so many of these women raped?

There seems to be a rape epidemic going on

in this country?

Why?

[HarperInTheMist]

Watch this video. Do some research. This isn't random violence against women by militia or soldiers. It is intentional, purposeful, and a concerted military tactic. Read the quotes from this documentary that I posted below. They reveal some of the "why". We are all supporting this war, whether we know it or not.

[lickmyn9ne]

What a beautiful song. Anyone know the name or where I could possibly find it?

[HarperInTheMist]

"Coltan with all the cell phones. We also have gold, uranium. They had to impose this war to steal everything out from Congo. That was the reason. It's an economic war.'"

(Christine Schuyler Deschryver, Women's Advocate, interviewed in The Greatest Silence)

[HarperInTheMist]

"The Interhamwe and other militias maintain the chaos necessary to help foreigners loot Congo's resources. Especially Coltan--a mineral used in all cell phones and laptop computers. The DRC has 80% of the world's reserves. It is estimated that a million dollars in Coltan is stolen out of the country every day."

quoted from: The Greatest Silence

[54spiritedwill54]

God bless you, Ms. Jackson, for telling this story.

[MeHeartsYoo]

I want to do something about this as well as help with other epidemics and genocides. I tried to join Peace Corps but I had to have a degree and all this crap. I'm just a 20 year old cosmetology student in California. How can a little random person like myself help besides sending 20 cents a day? I can't help because I'm not qualified? That's ridiculous.

[HarperInTheMist]

Hi MeHeartsYoo,

It is really great that you care and want to help! Joining the PeaceCorps isn't the only way to help. There is a nearly limitless number of things you personally can do, from changing your personal purchasing habits to helping educate others about what is going on on the DRC and all over the world. I am sure if you look around, you will find things even in your own city that you can do to make a difference. Have you watched this documentary? One of the things (cont. below)

[Connieyndal]

I'm thankful that people like Ms. Jackson are among us. I hope more will make other documentaries on other cases where women are abused.

It is time that the world will start to wake up and take action against these horrible things...

I do hope that the film will be accessible on the internet sometime, so everyone can see it.

Until then I'll try to make a public Danish TV-station show it...

Join the facebook group "Stop violence against women"

[emeraldfirewillow]

Saw the whole documentary....I finished it speechless. I can't believe how few people know or care about this daily tragedy.

[evolvinwisdom]

cant believe how film after video aftr film no one mentions how this has birthed.and what perpetuates these situations thru out Africa. the corporations& u.s.goverment paying these military groups especially with arms and training just as abugrab in Iraq.we are seeing a created chaos so that the riches are being .these yuth are not using uranium,gold,diamonds or any other welth that is being taken.why frce the wormen to leave their village?we just keep shwing poor women,poor women,crazy boys....

[HarperInTheMist]

The exploitation of the DRC is not solely by America or American corporations. Every technological country in the world has high stakes in the DRC. The entire history of this country/region is one of genocide and exploitation from its first founding. This is nothing like Abu Ghraib. It's fashionable to blame everything degenerate on the USA, but it's also entirely spurious and without merit. Indeed, if you watch the documentary, you will find out that even UN peace keepers (cont.)

[HarperInTheMist]

(cont.) Even UN Peace Keeper troops have been raping these women.

[boxygen0]

ils sont ridicules et lache en meme temps

[dangerouslaff]

Epidemic of Rape in the Congo: Women for Women International - i sent $25.00 - but more - i'm spreading the word.

[Arguman]

As with all HBO distributed documentaries, The Greatest Silence was incredible. I hope that more people will watch it that don't know about what is going on in the Congo and hopefully the images of both women and children can urge more people to spread awareness on this issue

[musyokat]

I managed to watch this although I don't have HBO!

I called my cable company and they agreed to switch it on for one night! ( I called the next morning to confirm that HBO had been switched off).

I don't have the words to adequately describe what this film did to me.

I will still buy the DVD though I must not forget our sisters in The Congo.

[persephone113]

To those people who have NetFlix, they will have it eventually. I just checked and have already saved it in my queue. I don't have premium channels either, but I end up watching a lot of documentaries from Netflix.

[cljw31]

this is heart breaking :(

i dont have hbo as well. wish i can watch this somehow

[damesupuu]

I really want to watch this but i do not have HBO. Is there anyway other way i can watch this???

[mohairsammy]

God bless you, Ms. Jackson, for telling this story. I can't say I'm looking forward to seeing it, but I will be watching Tuesday night. I'm urging others to do the same. This is beyond horrifying.

[headmutha]

Thank you so much for telling their stories. I will be watching.

Racquel Turner

Mothers Fighting For Others