Congo: Just here suffering

Imani was just 15 when soldiers from the rebel group Interahamwe found her on the road in a remote region in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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[BlakeBarbieDoll]

I am sharing this video with everyone in my address book (on both of my channels.) This is one of the most relevant videos that I have seen on this site. As a person of African decent, I have to admit, I hate to even think about the state of Africa and its people. Blacks in the ''motherland" and in the diaspora are all struggling--struggling for a life of quality. It seems to be FAR beyond the reach of the black masses. Lord have mercy.

[Poofacespectacular]

I pray for her and her daughter.

[grunder20]

wish i can help them.

[CutestKittyChannel]

this is so sick

[Scyeth]

@Poofacespectacular Praying does nothing, if you really do want to help, you'll become a soldier so you can eliminate the root of the problems, there is a saying that hands that help are better than lips that pray

[cleosafiria]

@TheCruel Obviously you don't realise the amount of emotional and physical pain that rape causes it's victims.

[whitespider28]

@demonicspire1 I was thinking the exact same thing.

[demonicspire1]

@SuperTEW make me

[demonicspire1]

@SuperTEW Make me. Do you really think this situation signifies anything positive about the power of Africans to build stable communities. Even nobel prize winning geneticist James D. Watson agrees with me.

[SuperTEW]

@demonicspire1

shut the fuck up

[SuperTEW]

@demonicss

[mendigger]

@irunxboxlive

somebody please anal-rape you

[AkamuSlayer]

People complain that the lack of contraceptives is the reason why Africans have more kids than they can feed, but when 5/6 of your kids are the result of rape, that argument kind of falls apart.

Rapists don't use protection, and it's not like you can get an abortion in the fucking Congo.

[Iguanaintrouble]

@Poofacespectacular Trying to pass a resolution in my University that will maybe start a European wave of the same course regarding the purchase of conflict minerals. What are you doing?

[Poofacespectacular]

@chogyokko thanks chogyokko.

[Poofacespectacular]

@MyLittlePwny7 it's not about physical protection at this point, obviously

[Poofacespectacular]

@Iguanaintrouble what are you doing?

[Iguanaintrouble]

@Poofacespectacular That won't do anything.

[sondano]

@PorcelainLies If getting offended is bothering you then simply don't get offended. I never do. Yes a few women do commit violent rape but I'd like to see your data. The worst I have seen so far was a Canadian poll showing that about 24% of alledged sex crimes (although not kind of violent rape this video is about) were commited by females as opposed to 98% of reported cases where the offender was male. Whether the alledged crimes indeed happened is another question.

[BaklivaX]

@irunxboxlive

ye u r funny online troll u r pr0, would like to see how u'd feel if your sister/gf/mom would share the same story as this woman..

[PorcelainLies]

@sondano I wasn't trying to imply that it was an equal thing in this case, just that there are in fact many situations where women do rape, molest, or sexually assault people. It may not be a 50-50 thing, but the percentage of attacks by women aren't a decimal of a percent like seem so keen on implying. It's a big enough chunk that you shouldn't be slandering one sex. You're being terribly sexist, and I find it offensive.

[sondano]

@PorcelainLies so you say that women rape people just as often as men except that those cases are not reported? The vast majority of unreported rapes are also committed by men and there are statstical methods to get a pretty good picture of how many occurs in a given area within a given period. In fact the vast majority of all sexual crimes are commited by men. Trying to pretend that females are equally responsible is just bizarre.

[TheCruel]

Being raped 4 times in 10 years is the equivalent to being raped every day? Evidently, there is more need to worry about education in Congo rather than the issue of rape. But I'm sure glad she can sleep well at night thinking that the physical abuse of her own daughter is justified by the fact she was raped a few times.

[MyLittlePwny7]

@Poofacespectacular I don't think prayer is realistic protection from rape.

[PorcelainLies]

@sondano Just because it's not reported, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It's impossible to get an accurate statistic on rapes, because it's estimated so few are reported... I know quite a few people who were raped or sexually assaulted and never reported it.

[sondano]

@ApeSelf this video is about one particular type of "terrible thing" namely rape. Yeah sure let's just treat that as if both genders were responsible for it. You are just a politically correct idiot. This is a typically male crime. Very few women force others to have sex with them. And yes most gang rapes are commited by blacks both in Africa and in the developed world. And I'm talking about peacetime gage rapes not what comes with war. In the UK it is virtually exclusively black crime.