Jeffrey Gettleman, the New York Times correspondent in East Africa (who seem to report about nothing else but violence, war and death) has a harrowing piece in today’s paper about increasing rape of men by men in eastern Congo. Quoting Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, United Nations officials and several Congolese aid organizations, as well as interviews with some of the male victims, Gettleman reports that “… the number of men who have been raped has risen sharply in recent months, a consequence of joint Congo-Rwanda military operations against rebels that have uncapped an appalling level of violence against civilians. Aid workers struggle to explain the sudden spike in male rape cases. The best answer, they say, is that the sexual violence against men is yet another way for armed groups to humiliate and demoralize Congolese communities into submission.”
The report is also accompanied by a slideshow.
The Green Cathedral (In Cape Town?) http://bit.ly/W7rnY http://bit.ly/18Wwyw http://bit.ly/Ao44s Just a suggestion for Heffrey Gettleman
A friend cynically commented that perhaps now the situation will actually be addressed….
How horrible. The slideshow is particularly harrowing.