| DESPICABLE RAPIST BASTARDS! |
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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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| General Hospital 12/09/08-1 |
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Max, Maxie, Spin; Carly, Jax; Sonny, Claudia,
Olivia, Patrick; Jason, Sam, Liz, Lucky,
boys; intro; Jason, Sam, Liz, Lucky, boys;
Max, Maxie, Spin; Carly, Jax; Sonny, Claudia,
Olivia, Patrick
Tags : General Hospital GH Soapnet ABC Kelly Monaco Greg Vaughan Steve Burton Maurice Benard Laura Wright Genie Francis Kimberly McCullough Jason Thompson Tyler Christopher Megan Ward Kirsten Storms Finola Hughes Bradford Anderson Cook Claire Coffee Rebecca Herbst Rick Hearst Sarah Brown Julie Berman Brandon Barash Nancy Lee Grahn Ingo Rademacher Lisa LoCicero Tony Geary Cazigirl |
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| Le blog finance: JF Fourt sur l'Ipo de la CMT |
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Jean-François Fourt fondateur et general
Partner de Truffle Capital, numéro 1 du
capital investissement dans le domaine de
l'energie nous présente sa dernière
opération: L'introduction en bourse du
deuxième opérateur minier privé au Maroc.
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| Le Général John Larsson au Congo n° 4 - Aéroport |
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JOHN LARSSON, GENERAL DE L'ARMEE DU SALUT
ET FREDA LARSSON, COMMISSAIRE EN VISITE
PASTORALE
AU CONGO BRAZZAVILLE
(Juillet 2005)
Images et son de Wilfrid HOUABALOUKOU
Mixage et mise en ligne par Adrien
HOUABALOUKOU
JOHN LARSSON, GENERAL OF SALVATION ARMY
AND FREDA LARSSON,COMMISSIONNER ON PASTORAL
VISIT IN CONGO BRAZZAVILLE
(July, 2005)
Pictures and sound of Wilfrid HOUABALOUKOU
Sound mixing and online bet by Adrien
HOUABALOUKOU
Tags : Larsson Jhon Freda Houabaloukou Armée du salut Moungali Salvation army |
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