Eight-year-old Pendeza Miriam, was raped by two CNDP rebels in Rubaya in Masisi Territory when her mother, Musabymana Nyirarukundo, was also raped by three CDNP men on two separate days in early 2009, shortly before the ceasefire. The mother said the rebels came down to the village, started shooting and looting. Pendeza and her mother returned to Rubabya in April, however, the father had already left them and married another woman in a different village.
