Rape The National Sport in Some African Countries!!

[michael_ital]

This is something that should warm the hearts of Somalinet's He Man Womanhaters Club



Assailants `protected' in unprecedented plague of sexual violence

Sep 04, 2009 04:30 AM
Olivia Ward
FOREIGN AFFAIRS REPORTER

Congolese women's rights defender Justine Masika Bihamba was in her car one day last October when her sons, aged 7 and 13, were dragged out by uniformed men and beaten in the street.

It wasn't the first time her family was threatened. A year earlier, six men, reportedly uniformed soldiers, broke into her home in Goma in the lawless eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and tied up Bihamba's six children, before sexually assaulting a daughter.

It was a brutal warning that not only victims of sexual violence, but those who try to support them, are targets in a territory that is the heart of darkness for Africa's women. The level of sexual violence is so extreme the United Nations has called it unprecedented.

Yesterday Bihamba, who co-ordinates the Synergie des Femmes Contre les Violences Sexuelles, took her protest against Congo's war on women to Ottawa.

With Alex Neve, who heads Amnesty International Canada, she handed a petition of 20,000 Canadian signatures to the DRC embassy, urging that the government protect her and the many women who are raped and sexually mutilated in the eastern part of the country.

"My children are badly traumatized," Bihamba said in a phone interview. "But I can't leave DRC. I have to do my work."

There is an ever-increasing amount of work to do, as women are attacked by all sides in a bloody free-for-all in which government troops battle Rwandan militias who have fled across the border to evade justice for the 1994 genocide, ethnic militias clash, and criminal gangs fight each other for the region's mineral wealth.

When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited female victims in the DRC last month, she said she had come face to face with "evil in its basest form."

She pledged $17 million (U.S.) to document sexual violence and train doctors and police – including female officers – to combat the epidemic of rape that often includes sexual torture. By attacking women, the rapists aim to humiliate and break the spirit of their opponents.

But easing the plight of women in the eastern Congo is a task that requires more than a single country's efforts.

Meanwhile, Bihamba's overstretched network of volunteers helps victims get medical help, counselling, legal aid and rehabilitation in communities that may reject them. The group sets up small economic projects, like farming, to give the often-destitute victims an income to survive.

But Bihamba herself has not been able to find justice for the attacks on her family – an example of the impunity that reigns in the eastern Congo, in spite of the government's official opposition to violence against women.

"I've met with people representing military justice," she said. "I was told that the men who did these things are well protected."

[AbdiWahab252]

Mickey,

In the Congo, the men are also being raped too.

[michael_ital]

Coincidence it happens in only these particular 3rd world countries?

[The Nomad]

Coincidence it happens in only these particular 3rd world countries?

Rape only happens in 3rd world countries? Are you sure?

[The Nomad]

Mike, what or your thoughts on Canada having the 5th highest rape rate in the world?

[michael_ital]

As the National Sport? Yes. Yes, I am in fact sure.

Im sure you're referring to reported rapes in a country that actually enforces it's rape laws? Hardly surprising, considering the FACTS outlined in the article above...

[BaasAbuur]

Mickey,

In the Congo, the men are also being raped too.

Shh! Italia will probably book his flight immediately thanks to you.

[nomadicwarlord]

South Africa rape statistics are appaling. A woman is raped in South Africa in every 17 seconds, a world record.

[Kolombo]

Most adults in 3rd world countries suffer from all sorts of psychological/psychiatric disorders which go undiagnosed.

No system to keep the loonies away, no proper documentation, no sufficient law enforcement, etc.

It all comes down to economics.

[The Nomad]

As the National Sport? Yes. Yes, I am in fact sure.

Can you prove that rape is the commonly accepted national sport? Or are you being stupid as per usual?

Im sure you're referring to reported rapes in a country that actually enforces it's rape laws? Hardly surprising, considering the FACTS outlined in the article above...

Can you show me one nation where rape is condoned by law?

Go ahead, I'll wait.

[michael_ital]

Mickey,

In the Congo, the men are also being raped too.

Shh! Italia will probably book his flight immediately thanks to you.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL



NOmad

And you'll continue to wait as long as you continue to circumvent the facts

[The Nomad]

Concession accepted.

[michael_ital]

Dude, straight up? You're "technique" for evading karbaash is weak. Not to mention it's transparent. You're weak son. You're afraid of me.

[The Nomad]

*snip*

Prove rape is the accepted national sport of any African country or that any nation on Earth explicitly condones it or concede to being a liar.

Don't waste my time with garbage. Answer the question or be quiet.

[SahanGalbeed]

@micheal Ital , he just "bites more than he can chew " so to speak from time to time .