Rape of Women in the Congo

This Tuesday I went to the “A Night for the Women of the Congo” in Meachum Auditorium.  There was a speaker and a power point presentation at the beginning of it.  After the speaker enlightened the audience with the basics of the problem in the Congo, they played a documentary about the rape of women in the Congo.  They said that the Congo is one of the most dangerous places for women and girls on the planet.  Soldiers of the army take these women and rape them, in some cases gang rape them.  After they rape them they stick foreign objects into their private parts and tear their uterus and bladders.  Most women cannot even control their urine.

I think this is absolutely terrible.  I can’t believe that I am sitting here on my bed, in my warm house, and on my computer while across the world there are women who are scared to go to sleep at night in fear that they are going to be raped.  In some cases, raped to death.  The worst part about the rape is that the men who are doing this are not even getting in trouble for it.  There is no Special Victims Unit in the Congo.  So, these men are getting away with what they are doing.  There are even corrupt police officers, which is also extremely terrible. 

I can’t believe that this is going on and really no one even knows about, or even cares to know about it.  I am going to do all that I can to let this be know, and to try and get it stopped.