Herbert on Congo in the NY Times

Bob Herbert of the New York Times writes about sexual violence in the Congo on February 21st:

Perhaps we’ve heard so little about them because the crimes are so unspeakable, the evil so profound.

Bob Herbert

For years now, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marauding bands of soldiers and militias have been waging a war of rape and destruction against women. This sustained campaign of mind-bending atrocities, mostly in the eastern part of the country, has been one of the strategic tools in a wider war that has continued, with varying degrees of intensity, since the 1990s. Millions have been killed.

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