Tears in the Congo
A prison clerk calls for each accused civilian perpetrator including the accused with rape charges to go outside the Central Prison gate to the makeshift civil court in Goma. The prison building was burnt by a riot in Oct. 2008, and the civil tribunals were being held just outside the prison. Sexual violence cases in Eastern Congo now not only limits to military cases, but there is a significant increase of civil cases as civilians also commit rapes at all times.
