In DR Congo camps women face stark choice: hunger or rape
The Rusayo IDP camp, home to tens of thousands of war-displaced people, at the foot of the Nyiragongo volcano on the outskirts of Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Similar to thousands of other women and girls, armed men raped the 15-year old when she left her displacement camp, near the city of Goma, in search of food. Rwanda backs the Tutsi-led M23, according to several western countries such as the United States and France, although Kigali denies it. She said ethnic Hutu fighters had captured her. And one raped her over the course of several weeks. Patricia managed to escape one morning after pretending to fetch water.Sandra Kavira, a Congolese social worker with the charity Doctors Without Borders , listened as Patricia's mother told the tale.
If stories of extreme violence are legion, the scale of sexual assaults around Goma is also astronomical.
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