All ten things could help stop the violence against in eastern Congo. Of the ten things, I challenge everyone to get the Obama Administration to get the Rwandan and Congolese Government to the table. In the interim, hold all funding to the Rwandan Government until they stop supporting the Nkunda rebel group.
Ten Things You Can Do About the War in Congo.
The peace agreement signed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006 did not end the war.
An estimated 400,000 women have been raped in the past ten years in what can only be called an act of femicide--the planned and systemic destruction of women. Women have suffered fistulas from rapes with knives, guns and penises. Women have been forced to eat dead babies. Soldiers who are HIV-positive are sent to villages to rape wives in front of their husbands, girls in front of their fathers.
The systematic breakdown of the family is part of a larger plan to loosen the community's grip on its natural resources--diamonds, gold and especially coltan, used to make laptops and cellphones.
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