Tears in the Congo: Victims of Sexual Violence
Young Tutsi rebels from CDNP (Congré National pour la Defense du Peuple) holding Kalashnikovs in Bunagana, in March 17, 2008, where the commander of Laurent Nkunda, was reportedly arrested by the Congolese-Rwandan joint forces in January, 2009. The armed conflict between different rebels and government forces had resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and more than 1.4 million internally displaced persons in the Eastern Congo from 2004 until now. The sexual violence was rampant towards women and children, which left them dead or mentally and physically traumatized.

