East of DRC: Sexual violence is used as an instrument of war to terrorise and punish civilians who support the wrong side; human rights groups describe gang rapes as commonplace and often accompanied by torture; many young women have been abducted into sexual slavery
East of DRC: Sexual violence is used as an instrument of war to terrorise and punish civilians who support the wrong side; human rights groups describe gang rapes as commonplace and often accompanied by torture; many young women have been abducted into sexual slavery