The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 16M
Director : Lisa F. Jackson
Sinopsis
Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands of woman and girls have been raped. Rape, explains a British colonel, is a weapon of war, part of a destabilization covering the theft of valuable minerals. Rape victims are traumatized, injured, abandoned by husbands, pregnant, and ravaged by disease.
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