By Miguel Galaz I am a white European, 25 year old male, and have led by all accounts a privileged life, absent all wants and means. Â My parents did everything they could to provide me and my sister with everything that was denied their generation. However I find myself sitting here, on the verge of tears, learning more and more about a region I only know a little about. Let me try to convey to you what is running through my mind right now. 4 every 5 minutes, 48 every hour, 1152 every day, nearly 420500 every year: not just numbers, but rather the projected rapes that happen in the Democratic Republic of Congo, every minute, every day, and every year since sexual violence was introduced as a weapon of war in the region when conflicts began around 1998. Read More »
Rape as a Weapon of Mass Psychological Destruction in the DRC
