Parsing Rampant Rape Crisis in Eastern Congo

I am sick of this. Rape here, rape there, rape everywhere. Somehow our world cares more about Lady Gaga than the nameless ten-year-old who is repeatedly violated in East Congo. Sarah Palin will talk of special needs. What is more special need than this ten-year-old. We need a global cultural revolution which revolutionizes attitudes toward sexism and militarism and other aspects of patriarchal history.

Here's a travelogue on rape in East Congo.

Inner City Press: Investigative Reporting from the United Nations: "UNITED NATIONS, September 1 -- As the UN tries to slow down or even bury the story of its inaction on the mass rapes in Eastern Congo, the questions keep on coming and the admissions, drip by drip. But belatedly updated victim numbers can't change the inaccurate statements of MONUSCO chief Roger Meece, nor the inaction of Margot Wallstrome, UN envoy on Sexual Violence and Conflict."

It always gets to the point of complicity of the messengers in the crime. Better to get together and work on a solution.

UN Defends Inaction on Mass Rapes in Eastern Congo, Government Missing in Action - Congo Planet: "The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is on the defensive since the NGO International Medical Corps revealed early this week that rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), and members of a local Mai Mai militia, raped at least 154 women in North Kivu, a few kilometers from a MONUSCO base."

And just to stay on some sort of course, the reliable Human Rights Watch where you can read the following and as much corroboration as you can take.

Soldiers Who Rape, Commanders Who Condone | Human Rights Watch: "'The Worst Place' to Be a Woman or a Child

Tens of thousands of women and girls in Congo have become victims of sexual violence during the past 15 years. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the agency coordinating work on sexual violence in Congo, reported that 15,996 new cases of sexual violence were registered in 2008 throughout the country. In the eastern province of North Kivu alone, there were 4,820 new cases.[4] UNFPA also reported that more than 65 percent of victims of sexual violence during the same period were children, the majority adolescent girls.[5] An estimated ten percent of victims are children less than ten years old.[6]"

Parsing Rampant Rape Crisis In Eastern Congo, Yes there is horror and rape in East Congo but it is merely among the worst symptoms of a continuing global devaluation of women and girls. Oppose!