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Rape of a Nation
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Rape of a Nation

Photos
15
Status
Public
Created
May 24, 2013
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
Categories
Documentary Black & White

Photos (15)

A child gold miner in Watsa, northeastern Congo. 2004.
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Soldiers of General Mathieu Ngodjolo, leader of the MRC (Movement for the Revolution of Congo) militia, in their stronghold of Zumbe. The militia, like their government-soldier counterparts, have been accused by Human Rights Watch of using rape as a weapon of war. 2006.
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Maria, a mother of three, lost her arm defending her children in Nizi, northeastern Congo. She recounts the story of soldiers eating her flesh after they had hacked off her arm. 2003.
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A child soldier rides back to his base in Ituri district, northeastern Congo. 2003.
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The guard at General Laurent Nkundas farm in North Kivu. General Nkunda claims hes fighting a war in eastern Congo to protect the rights of Congolese Tutsis against the Hutu Interahamwe from Rwanda, otherwise known as the FDLR. Nkunda was arrested by Rwanda in early 2009.
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Refugees flee south after a rebel attack on Bule and Fataki, northeastern Congo. 2003.
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An early-morning religious service in the Gety displaced camp, just days before the historic 2006 elections.
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The funeral of Henry Konerala, ten-months-old, who died from diarrhoea and vomiting a few days after arriving in the Gety camp. He was one of eighteen people who died that day, just before Congo's historic elections. 2006.
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A UN armoured personnel carrier responds to fighting in the bush in Ituri district. 2006.
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A forty-year-old victim in a womens counselling centre in Bunia. She was the victim of sexual violence in Gety. 2006.
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Children at a centre for street kids in Kinshasa. Many children are made homeless after being accused of being sorcerers when a family suffers bad luck and economic hardship. 2005.
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Displaced people bring back water to their camp in Goma after fleeing fighting in Karuba and Mushake. Fighting rages between government forces and rebels in Karuba, North Kivu province.
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The coffin arrives for the burial of eight-month-old Sakura Lisi, the daughter of a gold miner in Mongbwalu, northeastern Congo. She died from anaemia brought on by malaria. 2004.
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The washing of the body at the burial of the eight-month-old Sakura Lisi, the daughter of a gold miner in Mongbwalu, northeastern Congo. 2004.
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The burial of the eight-month-old Sakura Lisi, the daughter of a gold miner in Mongbwalu, northeastern Congo. 2004.
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