Bob Herbert: The Invisible War

[Stuart G]

"Perhaps we’ve heard so little about them because the crimes are so unspeakable, the evil so profound.


For years now, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marauding bands of soldiers and militias have been waging a war of rape and destruction against women. This sustained campaign of mind-bending atrocities, mostly in the eastern part of the country, has been one of the strategic tools in a wider war that has continued, with varying degrees of intensity, since the 1990s. Millions have been killed.

Women and girls of all ages, from old women to very young children, have been gang-raped, and in many cases their sexual organs have been mutilated. The victims number in the hundreds of thousands. But the world, for the most part, has remained indifferent to their suffering."


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/opinion/21herbert.html?_r=1


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I know this isn't pleasant, but it is something we need to know about..

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thank you for posting this...

I would call it genocide.


K&R

[eridani]

2. Sounds like something that should be on the White House comment line n/t

[Stuart G]

3. This is something that we should all know about.

Evil never stops. Man's inhumanity to man must be dealt with everyday. Somehow we can never give up the fight, cause evil never does.
But knowledge I suppose is our first step.

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[balantz]

5. Kick