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The deputy head of the UN peacekeeping force based in Goma, Vivian van de Perre, said that while several thousand men managed to escape from the prison, the area reserved for women was set on fire.

“They were all raped, and then they set fire to the women’s wing. They all died afterwards.”

The full details of the attack are still unclear, but this believed to be the worst, most violent attack in the recent M23 conflict in eastern DRC.

In the country, often called the "rape capital of the world," widespread sexual violence is often used as a weapon of war by armed groups like M23.

When I was a preteen tumblr was my personal diary. Can you imagine, for a second, how many girls used tumblr mindlessly for escapism? For us to see this kind of posts, it was fantastic. We were learning about the world under a pro-woman, feminist lens.

This post is from 2012. Can you imagine writing this anywhere, even here on tumblr, without any repercussion? How the argument “biological hardwiring” made its way into young women’s minds, again?

the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives

Sexual violence against 1 in 5 women

to intimidate all female civilians