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Women On the Frontline: Congo Part 1 of 3
By: TVEAP
Posted: Jun 25 09
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Regions: Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Issues: Rape and sexual abuse, Violence against women, Women's rights
Tags: violence, war crimes
For the last ten years, the Eastern Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been at war. The women bear the brunt of it.
The precise number of victims suffering from rape and related diseases, of which traumatic fistula is one, is impossible to know. A UN independent expert says that between 2005 and 2007, 14,200 cases were reported in South Kivu province alone. Shunned by their community, the women are often reluctant to come forward for treatment. Instead they are forced to bear the physical and psychological scars of their ordeal alone.
We travel to Bukavu to interview Dr Denis Mukwege, one of the few doctors in the country willing to treat fistula, to discover the truth behind one of the world's greatest unreported evils.
Original Source: TVEAPfilms
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