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I think everyone should look at this riveting article posted on CNN and writen by Eve Ensler, playwriter of The Vagina Monalogues: Commentary: War on Women in Congo.
This article is truly phenomenal.
To sum the article up: “Femicide, the systematic and planned destruction of the female population, is being used as a tactic of war to clear villages, pillage mines and destroy the fabric of Congolese society.”
The author goes on to say how babies – BABIES! – are raped, women, young and old.
Excerpt: “My play, “The Vagina Monologues,” opened my eyes to the world inside this world. Everywhere I traveled with it scores of women lined up to tell me of their rapes, incest, beatings, mutilations. It was because of this that over 11 years ago we launched V-Day, a worldwide movement to end violence against women and girls.”
“I think of Beatrice, shot in her vagina, who now has tubes instead of organs. Honorata, raped by gangs as she was tied upside down to a wheel. Noella, who is my heart — an 8-year-old girl who was held for 2 weeks as groups of grown men raped her over and over. Now she has a fistula, causing her to urinate and defecate on herself. Now she lives in humiliation.”
Does nobody else see this? Does anyone hear these women? Who hears us?
