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Tears in the Congo black and white 2009

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  • A victim with a baby cries as she described the rape to a counselor at Rutshuru Hospital in North Kivu. The victim was treated with thorough counseling and an antibiotic injection, which is provided by MSF France.
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  • After a decade-long armed conflict, more than 5,4 million people are displaced in IDP camps and villages in Democratic Republic of the Congo. By 2008, there were 800,000 IDPs in North Kivu province alone. Congolese people - especially women- suffer from the worst sexual violence in the world, whereas average 14,245  rape cases a year are reported in the country. Women get raped in farms, jungles, homes, schools, and even inside IDP camps. Many of them suffer from physical condition called "traumatic fistula" which are often caused by brutal gang rapes that leave victims with no control over urination or defecation and, therefore, spurned by all.
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  • A woman whose dress was ripped as a result of rape the night before came to the Rutshuru Hospital's counseling center run by MSF France.
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  • Congolese Tutsi rebels from CNDP (Congré National pour la Defense du Peuple) gathered along with village children after their morning drill in Bunagana in 2008, one of their strongholds bordering Uganda. CNDP spokesperson in Bunagana claimed that their "soldiers" were highly trained, and the group is listed in the lowest pyramid of committing sexual violence in the UN statistics.
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  • Victims of sexual violence with fistula problems await the physical exam at Beni's hospital to receive the repair surgery by the doctors from Goma.
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  • A Hutu rebel from FDLR (Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda) guards their base in a village in Rutshuru Territory in 2008. Although many victims pointed to the Rwandan rebels as prime offenders, the spokesperson of their political group denied any accusations.
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  • At Imagerie des Grands Lacs Hospital in Beni, a northern tip of North Kivu, victims of sexual violence wait almost once a month for the doctors from Goma to come and examine their physical damage. At the time of visit in March, 2009, 31 victims were on queue to receive examination in both the hospital and home.
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  • Back in Goma, Feza Maniriho, 20, center, along with two other victims, awaits her turn to receive a fistula repair surgery at Keshero Hospital. On that day, a special doctor for fistula surgery from South Kivu was invited and performed four operations. She said she was raped by two armed men who spoke "Lingala," the language of the government soldiers.
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  • A male nurse's hand checks the eyes of a victim who briefly opened her eyes unconsciously while receiving a surgery by an American doctor who did volunteer services at Gesom Hospital. This victim's organs were brutally mutilated, thus the doctor opened her abdomen, and connected the ureters from the kidneys to the colon to make her at least continent.
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  • Victims rest in beds after fistula repair surgeries at Gesom Hospital in Goma. Victims with traumatic fistula problems are unable to control their urine due to the brutality of the crime.
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  • Sexual violence is committed indiscriminately to all ages of young girls and women such as  a twelve-year-old Aziza here, who was raped in the Masisi area and stayed at a transit center in Goma, North Kivu. She also tended her aunt's babies who were born as a result of a rape.
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  • An elderly victim of sexual violence rests on the bed which she shares with a young girl inside transit center at Heal Africa Hospital, Goma.
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  • A seven-year-old girl sits on a hospital bed inside the women's ward which is a home for average 30 victims of sexual violence at Gesom Hospital in Goma, North Kivu province, Monday, Feb. 28, 2008. The counselors said that she was raped by one FARDC (Congolese Army) soldier in Zungungu village of Masisi area in Jan, 2008. They said the soldier lured her by saying he was going to give her candies, and took her to the forest. She came to the hospital on Jan. 19, and received daily treatment with antibiotics and disinfections. She was discharged about two weeks later.
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  • Women sit in the bed inside the special ward for victims of sexual violence at Gesom Hospital in Goma.
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  • A victim of sexual violence stands in the courtyard as her meal was being cooked in front of her at the transit center in Goma run by Mama Jeannette from Hope in Action/CRN.
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  • A housegirl collects rain water inside the counselor Mama Jeannette's house who hired other victims and orphans to do various housework.
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  • Eighteen-year-old Immaculée was raped by three militia men from FDLR (Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo) in the Masisi area, and was pregnant from the rape. This picture was taken a few weeks after she was admitted to Keshero Hospital.
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  • Children in Kichanga, Rutshuru Territory, a few days before the official ceasefire between CNDP (Congré National pour la Defense du Peuple) and Congolese National Army, in March 2009. Kichanga used to be controlled by Congolese Tutsi rebels, CNDP (Congré National pour la Defense du Peuple). After the arrest of Laurent Nkunda's arrest in Rwanda in January, this village went through the integration process of rebels into the national army, FARDC. The village was seen with mixture of government soldiers and former rebels wearing the soldiers' uniforms, though the population did not feel entirely secure as things were still volatile, and the roads between the villages and Goma were threatened by rebels of both Hutu and Tutsie who turned into armed bandits.
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  • 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.
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  • Furaha Fuluko Jeanne, 19, is a highschool student who was raped by two CNDP militiamen in Kichanga in in 2007. She gave a birth to a son, and now lives with her parents who once disowned her. She wishes to go to college and become a doctor or nurse, and work at a health center.
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  • At a transit center in Kichanga, victims of sexual violence from different villages congregated one morning and drank warm milk. Some of them had just arrived, others were leaving for their home villages and resorted to the last warm meal. This transit center was run by Mama Jeanne from Hope in Action/CRN. The transit center received 10-15 victims a day, but only had 15 beds and there were about 45 victims at that time of visit.
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  • Niyonzima Joyeuse, 48, center, returned home in Rubaya village in Masisi Territory five months after her rape. She'd been treated in Keshero Hospital and recovered in a transit center in Goma, managed by Mama Jeannette from Hope in Action/CRN. After arriving in her village along with other victims and Mama Jeannette, she was welcomed by her husband, a farmer and evangelist, along with four sons and one daughter, who waited for her.
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  • Mapendo Sakina, 20, far left, stands in her family's courtyard with her son, mother, other siblings, and her father, far right, who is a pastor in Kichanga. She was raped by two Rwandan rebels in 2007, and gave birth to a son. The father once disowned her after learning she was pregnant from the rapes, but accepted her after she gave a birth. He had her younger sister quit the school to pay for Mapendo's education and to help her become a math teacher.
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  • Maj. Honorine Munyole Sikujua, left, looks at a 13-year-old victim of sexual violence who came to the Police for Women and Children (PELVS: Police pour la Protection de l'Enfance, de la femme et de lutte contre les Violences Sexuelle) in April 7, 2009, Bukavu, South Kivu. <br />
The victim came with her uncle to report another uncle who raped and impregnated her. The baby died, and she had a fistula problem. Maj. Honorine called the ambulence from Panzi Hospital to hospitalize her.
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  • An accused rapist of another 13-year-old girl lowers his head as he testifies to the police and denies charges inside Police for Women and Children in Bukavu. He was arrested by the police and taken to the booking center shortly after the testimony.
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  • Doctor Denis Mukwege is the most prominent gynecologist in DR Congo on fistula repair surgeries. He also serves as a director of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, South Kivu, in which he started the operations on victims of sexual violence since 1999. He said doctors at Panzi Hospital operates about 350 sexual violence cases a year, and the success rate is 90%.
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  • A 16-year-old ex-child soldier sits under his belonging in a room at the protection center by CERAO in Beni, a northern tip of Nord Kivu. Child soldiers from different factions also are responsible for looting and rape at will, growing up to be rebels.
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  • Two prosecutors enter the "Prosecutor Generals' Office" as policemen salute them in Goma. The building consists of a detention center and the Appeals Court, where accused rape suspects along with other accused criminals are incarcerated and appeal for their cases.
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  • A Congolese soldier from FARDC stands guard outside Goma's FARDC Headquarters in 2008. FARDC in the region congregates in this HQ, attend military trainings, meetings, and even court hearings of various crimes committed by its soldiers.
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  • Kafupi Kimanuka, 30, center, an FARDC (Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo) soldier, was imprisoned in Goma's Central Prison for sexual violence in North Kivu. Kafupi denied his charges on raping a 16-year-old girl in Bukumu area. There were about 30 accused perpetrators of sexual violence who were both military and civilian men in March 2009. Of the military men, at least three were confirmed to be a former members of rebels.
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  • Sixteen-year-old Tussin Karunge inside Goma's Central Prison said he was a fisherman on a lake shore, and suddenly a girl and police came to arrest him for sexual violence charges, which he denied. Civilian rape cases are increasing as much as military cases, however, many of the prisoners argued that the women or their families can file a false report, and the Police of Women and Children arrest them based only on the women's accusations.
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  • A discarded bed inside transit center at Heal Africa Hospital, 2009. At the transit center, women from Nord Kivu receive treatment, surgery, and job training to help women to be more self-reliant in case they return to their villages.
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