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Frustrated Mess
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posted 18 May 2006 05:03 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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It starts with a ward full of women who have been gang-raped and then shot in the vagina. I am standing in a makeshift ward in the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, the only hospital that is trying to deal with the bushfire of sexual violence in Eastern Congo. Most have wrapped themselves deep in their blankets so I can only see their eyes, staring blankly at me. Dr Denis Mukwege is speaking. “Around ten percent of the gang-rape victims have had this happen to them,” he says softly, his big hands tucked into his white coat. “We are trying to reconstruct their vaginas, their anuses, their intestines. It is a long process.”

In the name of the free market.


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otter
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posted 18 May 2006 10:37 PM      Profile for otter        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Sigh.. yet another disgustin act of barbarism. I am linking this to the my lai II thread as well.
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