
Ma in realtà questa non è una novità. Ultimamente una giornalista, Emanuela Zuccalà, ha condotto un reportage nello Stato Africano in cui si evince che il Congo lotta da più di dieci anni per ottenere la giustizia richiesta. Inoltre c’è un documentario, “The Greatest Silence”, vincitore al Sundance Festival 2008, which testifies to this. Following the conflict between North and South Kivu, near the border with Rwanda, since 1998, fought one of the bloodiest wars of recent years, the public regarded as an ethnic feud, but in truth is the review of area rich in gold, diamonds and tantalum, a rare metal used in nature for the production of surgical instruments and implants. And rape is the weapon and recreation of all militias: the rebels and the pro-government fighters, the poorest ethnic groups and the regular army. Are always at the expense of women. And 'what must be unimaginable. Abuse group, torture with sticks, knives, bayonets. Rifle and pistol shots fired into their bodies. Obviously it is the fastest way to eliminate future fighters opponents. And then there are girls, the dish more delicious because it is popular belief that violating a virgin makes immortal.
to account for the numbers, we say that in 2008, and only in South Kivu, the UN agency UNFPA has surveyed 11,600 women who have sought treatment following a sexual assault. And the only structure that deals with this is the Panzi hospital, a specialized institution in Bukavu, on the border with Rwanda and on the shores of Lake Kivu, which receives all the cases of women brutalized. Amnesty International had recommended
armed groups, the Government and the international community to take immediate action to end human rights violations. The recommendations include requiring the armed groups to immediately release all children recruited to fight the so-called baby-soldier, and to take measures to end sexual violence. The appeal was in 2008, the wars continue, the children are enlisted by force and even today, women continue to bear unwanted children.