Welcome to the Jungle...It's not about fun and games.

[Shimmer]

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Ordinary rapes, even violent ones, do not usually cause fistulas, although it's not medically impossible. Doctors in eastern Congo say they have seen cases that resulted from gang rapes where large numbers of militiamen repeatedly forced themselves on the victim. But more often the damage is caused by the deliberate introduction of objects into the victim's vagina when the rape itself is over. The objects might be sticks or pipes. Or gun barrels. In many cases the attackers shoot the victim in the vagina at point-blank range after they have finished raping her. "Often they'll do this carefully to make sure the woman does not die," says Dr. Denis Mukwege, medical director of Panzi Hospital. "The perpetrators are trying to make the damage as bad as they can, to use it as a kind of weapon of war, a kind of terrorism." Instead of just killing the woman, she goes back to her village permanently and obviously marked. "I think it's a strategy put in place by these groups to disrupt society, to make husbands flee, to terrorize."

Fucking animals. And there's NOTHING we can do to stop them. They don't want to be educated. They don't want to be fed. This isn't desperation or a cry for help. It's fucking animalistic behaviour. I hope they're all executed with a machete.

 

[hyperRealGurl]

Just reading what happens to some of these women... breaks my heart.....

 

[Shimmer]

It's not even women. The youngest victim of rape one of the hospitals has treated, and victim with a fistula, is TWELVE MONTHS OLD.

Twelve months old.
The oldest?
71.

 

[*Stargazer*]

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Originally Posted by Shimmer I hope they're all executed with a machete.

I could not possibly agree more.

 

[hyperRealGurl]

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Originally Posted by Shimmer It's not even women. The youngest victim of rape one of the hospitals has treated, and victim with a fistula, is TWELVE MONTHS OLD. Twelve months old. The oldest? 71.

OMFG thats just SICK as Fk....... Man i cant believe shit like this goes on .."just crazy"

 

[Beauty Mark]

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I hope they're all executed with a machete.

That would too kind for those people, if we can still see them as people.

I just cannot fathom any reason why people do those things or how or any of it. Those victims, to say it's heartbreaking is an understatement

 

[Shimmer]

It's not sick to them though. It's systematic terror implemented by people who don't value human life nor do they respect the sanctity of innocence.

 

[*Stargazer*]

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Originally Posted by Shimmer It's not sick to them though. It's systematic terror implemented by people who don't value human life nor do they respect the sanctity of innocence.

Its also rooted in a deeply, deeply misogynistic culture.

 

[Shimmer]

Indeed.
They've seen the ravages of war, and there's nothing left to see except the destruction of the innocence and bringers of life.


They don't deserve a trial.

The article actually says that different groups have different patterns of attack, and once a healthcare provider has been there long enough they can identify the attackers.

 

[MacVirgin]

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Originally Posted by Shimmer
I hope they're all executed with a machete.

i agree with you! but that still would be way to easy on those bastards!!!.

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Originally Posted by Shimmer
It's not even women. The youngest victim of rape one of the hospitals has treated, and victim with a fistula, is TWELVE MONTHS OLD.

Twelve months old.
The oldest?
71.

 

[Shimmer]

The sad part is it's such a way of life, and habit.

I can imagine (though I shudder to do so) women giving birth to a baby girl and killing her just to spare her the torment of these attackers.

 

[Willa]

Its a complete ''other world''.
Totally different from our Canada, our United States, our Europe...

Some part of OUR world is misunderstood.

Just think about what happened in Rwanda.
A canadian army general (Romeo Dallaire) claimed to UN and to the canadian army what was going to happen and nobody cared, nobody listened. All this violence/murders could have been avoided.

Again, he's speaking for other causes in Africa, but yet, nobody is listening, even if its told in the medias.

It must be HELL on earth over there.

 

[Shimmer]

If Hell is on Earth, I have to agree.

 

[GalleyGirl]

If most of governmental powers were in control of women, I don't think things like this would happen because no woman, save for the completely psychotic, would ever let rape like this go so unpunished. No woman would wish rape on her worst enemy, let alone the type of gang rape and other sexual abuse this article describes. These poor women and children...words can't even convey the type of evil this represents.

 

[Hawkeye]

that breaks my heart

you never know what kind of idiots really are out there. cruel, heartless people that do things just to watch it.

 

[mzcelaneous]

That totally breaks my heart. I cannot imagine how terrible and horrible these men can be. What's worse is that, like you said, there's nothing we can do about it. Very tragic.

 

[quandolak]

............

 

[d_flawless]

the really sad thing is that this is partly how AIDS is being transmitted. i hate how people act like people who have sex all know how to prevent it, or have the means to.
in situations like this, knowing means nothing. u think these MFs are gonna take the time to put a condom on? fuck that. they're raping the woman to infect her, out of their own self-hatred, often times.

i read about a fistula in a three-month old. sexual pleasure in an infant? it's fucking revolting. and completely excusable. i don't understand that. it's molestation in the worst of forms.

 

[Shimmer]

This isn't sexual pleasure, it's violation, violence, and terrorism.

 

[Throwaway Style]

That's so fucking awful.

They should be hanged, drawn, and quartered.