TAILIEUCHUNG - Ending Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

They put you in the middle of everyone, on a cross, with your head down and your legs spread and they raped you in that position. And the others had to cheer them on and dance around you.” “We are dealing with the effects, but not the Over the last fifteen years, the Great Lakes Region has been the theater of numerous bloody conflicts. Sexual violence, specifically, has occurred in many countries, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where such violence has been so pervasive that it is hardly possible to estimate its extent | 13 Ending Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Gaelle Breton-Le Goff They put you in the middle of everyone on a cross with your head down and your legs spread and they raped you in that position. And the others had to cheer them on and dance around you. We are dealing with the effects but not the causes. The cause is all those rapists that are scattered in the forests. Honorata Kizende. 1 INTRODUCTION Over the last fifteen years the Great Lakes Region has been the theater of numerous bloody conflicts. Sexual violence specifically has occurred in many countries particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC where such violence has been so pervasive that it is hardly possible to estimate its extent. The Joint Initiative against Sexual Violence toward Women and Children 2 identified 40 000 incidents of rape in 2003 including 25 000 in South The United Nations Population Fund UNFPA identified 15 996 new cases in 2008. More than 65 percent of the victims of sexual violence were children most of them young girls between twelve and eighteen although 10 percent were under ten years Statistics and estimates by these and other organizations however Gaelle Breton-Le Goff is a lecturer at the University of Quebec at Montreal in the faculty ofpolitical sciences and law. She is also a member of the Coalition for Women s Human Rights in Conflict Situations and an international consultant. i winter 2010 14 the fletcher forum of world affairs often underestimate the real number of victims. Some victims have died others have moved far away and others have retreated internally refusing to discuss what happened to them. Most of these women and girls lost their families land means of survival dignity health and sometimes their lives. Many of the survivors are condemned to live with permanent physical damage such as destroyed reproductive organs or HIV Others suffer post-traumatic stress disorder and social stigmatization others .

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