Rape in Congo: 'A country sport'

from AlertNet

Girls as young as nine raped by soldiers, women with their insides blown apart by rifle blasts, others raped in front of their children - despite the war officially ending in 2003, this is still an everyday reality for many women in eastern Congo, playwright Eva Ensler writes in women's magazine Glamour.

"They flung my baby's body on the ground like she was garbage. One after another they raped me. From that my vagina and anus were ripped apart," says Nadine, one of the women interviewed by Ensler on her recent trip to the region.

Nadine witnessed the killing of her three young children and 10 friends.

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