The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo

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• 2007-01-01
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• ▪ 1h-16m

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Overview

Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands of woman and girls have been raped. Rape, explains a British colonel, is a weapon of war, part of a destabilization covering the theft of valuable minerals. Rape victims are traumatized, injured, abandoned by husbands, pregnant, and ravaged by disease.

• Lisa F. JacksonDirector