DESPICABLE RAPIST BASTARDS!

Something is rotten in the Congo!

GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters)--updated 11:01 a.m. EDT, Mon July 30, 2007 -- Extreme sexual violence against women is pervasive in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and local authorities do little to stop it or prosecute those responsible, a U.N. investigator said on Monday.


A woman struggles to describe her rape by military members. Health workers call rape an epidemic.

Rape and brutality against women and girls are "rampant and committed by non-state armed groups, the Armed Forces of the DRC, the National Congolese Police, and increasingly also by civilians", said Turkish lawyer Yakin Erturk.

"Violence against women seems to be perceived by large sectors of society to be normal," she added in a report after an 11-day trip to the strife-torn country.

Erturk, special rapporteur for the United Nations Human Rights Council on violence against women, said the situation in South Kivu province, where rebels from neighboring Rwanda operate, was the worst she had ever encountered.

The atrocities perpetrated there by armed groups, some of whom seemed to have been involved in the 1994 Rwandan massacres in which 800,000 people were killed, "are of an unimaginable brutality that goes far beyond rape," she said.

"Women are gang-raped, often in front of their families and communities. In numerous cases, male relatives are forced at gun point to rape their own daughters, mothers or sisters," she said.

After rape, many women were shot or stabbed in the genital area, and survivors told Erturk that while held as slaves by the gangs they had been forced to eat excrement or the flesh of their murdered relatives.

Women who have been raped are systematically rejected by their families and society.

Widespread sexual abuse in the various conflicts racking the republic -- which last year held elections hailed as marking a new era -- "seems to have become a generalized aspect of the overall oppression of women," Erturk said.

Her report followed charges from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour last week that soldiers and police used excessive force, including summary executions, in quelling opposition protesters in the west of the DRC earlier this year.

In the central Equateur province, the police and army often responded to civil unrest "with organized armed reprisals that target the civilian population and involve indiscriminate pillage, torture and mass rape", the report found.

Although the DRC parliament outlawed sexual violence in July 2006, "little action is taken by the authorities to implement the law and perpetrators continue to enjoy immunity, especially if they wear the state's uniform," Erturk said.

Erturk said Congo's justice system was corrupt and in "a deplorable state," while conditions in prisons were "scandalous".

Senior army and police officers shielded their men from prosecution, and when some were arrested they escaped easily, probably "with the complicity of those in charge."

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[austinguy23]

lol, you sound so ridiculous trying to talk like a tough guy. Of course rape is bad. Why did you feel the need to videotape yourself walking around your house rambling on about it?

[glennrickard323572]

I certainly understand your anger towards the people who forcibly raped, mutilated, abuse, and even killed those poor, BEAUTIFUL Congolese women and girls...I feel a deep love for those women and girls who have gone through those horrors and would love to find ways to love, hug, and kiss each one of those women and giorls and try to make them feel good about themselves! We need to do all we can to stop all this violence against the good women and children of The Congo!

[yoson25]

it was Gods will

[skwiddjergensen]

I want to eat pig shit and the flesh of little children while I have my testicals crushed in a nut cracker and take it in the ass from these so called poop shooters and shit skins.

Probably they are muslims.

[ghengismaul]

its terrible that this happens anywhere. And theres a fear that I have that this type of behavior may spread. May evenhappen in America if things get worse

[55hikky]

@fastmaster2 These occurrences are not what determines the existence or absence of God. If events like this is what determines the existence of God, no one would be religious =]

[MarilynFilth]

@15waq1e3w2 All religion should be stopped, NO religion is good for women.

[MarilynFilth]

@abdullahalmahmood Shut the fuck up scum. Religious pigs are the most sexist piles of shit in the world.