الأربعاء، 10 أغسطس 2011

Kampala women slept in the woods for fear of rape

Women are still in Kampala Congo slept in the woods during the night, lest the rapists who attacked their village and they turned them mercilessly like wolves, where 35 women were raped. At the beginning of last October, the women gathered in the village to tell their stories of sexual crimes, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and Margot Owalström.

Old Hidla Abedi, did not satisfy her age to escape the rape, still delirious until the moment when returns painful anniversary, she says, "Imagine how the boy was twenty years old raped me, and I'm sixty-second, the age at which qualify me to be his grandmother," she to an old woman eighty years old was raped as well.

 Said Abedi to encourage women, "It is our cry to call for assistance, because we live in severe pain. You are my companions of the women, and we believe that our enemy will not hesitate to Aghtsapkin if gets the opportunity. They're ruthless," as stated place human rights "Security" .

The gang rape of more than 300 women and men of many children in villages deep in the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the beginning of last August, has led to renewed sexual violence in the area said it and Owalström it "the capital of rape in the world", and provided Wahlstrom facts obtained by the before the Security Council of the United Nations.

It is scheduled to send the Prosecutor of the International Tribunal based in The Hague team to investigate the mass rapes, which appeared in dozens of villages located between Walikale and Kiboa North Kivu in the period between July 30 and the second of August.

 In October of last year was arrested Calyx Mparohiman Chairman of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, one of the groups involved in rape, arrest warrant issued against him by the International Tribunal in Paris. Forces and formed the nucleus of this group of Hutus who fled Rwanda after participating in the genocide of Tutsis in 1994 They are accused of committing war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The court further arrest warrants over the past period. In mid-October last detained peacekeepers of the United Nations submitted the following Kokonda Sadok, which is known to many of the villagers, as the leader of the rapists.

Despite the peace agreement which was signed in 2003 formally ended the war, which lasted several decades, but the atrocities, especially against women, did not stop. The groups are fighting with the Congolese army Almilisheh the mining areas around the regions of Bessie and nodded, in order to exploit gold and metal Alcalton Alcassiterat and used in the manufacture of mobile phones and other electronic goods.

The rape is a way to humiliate the local population who can be used in forced labor, but the high rate of crimes committed last August sparked shock even for the teams of doctors communities, said Dr. Chris Bagoman, one of the international medical "It's the first time I have seen these scenes. I can not understand, because the aim is not murder and rape, but only ".

She says women in the village Niasse they will feel secure in the case that the peacekeeping forces of the United Nations to deploy patrols in a way more intense. Sakliza Bunda said, "was raped by eight men and kidnapped my child who is five months old."

A UN official announced last October that there were about 15 thousand cases of rape were committed last year in the conflict zones of the Republic of Congo, amid accusations of government forces being involved in cases of murder and rape of civilians in the east of the country.



At a hearing before the UN Security Council said the commander of the United Nations Mission to DRC Monowsko Roger Macy said there information on 15 thousand cases of rape, without giving evidence of the words he said on government forces to commit murders in the same villages that have seen cases of rape.

Messi added to the Council that in the region equivalent to the size of Afghanistan, where armed groups are active sometimes mixed with civilians, it is not possible to provide security Monowsko fully only by a massive increase in the number and sources.



Also informed the Special Envoy of the United Nations on sexual assault and Margot Alstorm Council that government troops are killing and raping of women in remote villages in the territory and Walikale, where it killed hundreds of them in the months of July and August.



She said the sad thing is that the same communities that were attacked militant groups were again attacked by government forces, "and this is not imagined or acceptable."

   

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