Wednesday, October 6, 2010

BBC News - Haunted by Congo rape dilemma

BBC News - Haunted by Congo rape dilemma

By Anne Mawathe
BBC News, Goma

''The rebel leader asked me two things: 'Do you want us to be your husbands? Or do you want us to rape you?'"

Congolese mother-of-eight Clementine speaks in a quiet and hesitant voice:

"I chose to be raped."

She explains: "I told myself, if I tell them that I want to be their wife, they will kill my husband. I didn't want my children growing up saying the one that made our father die is our mother."

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