Tears in the Congo: Victims of Sexual Violence
Esther, 23, at right, heads to the transit center as she carries her suitcase on her head in Buhimba, North Kivu. She walked like this for about half hour to the transit center. Ester said she was raped by two Rwandan rebels when she was farming in the field in June 2004. She was married and pregnant at that time, and lost her baby. Her husband left her after he visited Heal Africa three times. She return to her village in a volatile Rutshuru Territory 10 days later.
