Since King Leopold's reign in the Congo the people have been in a constant struggle because of the rebellions against the government. Due to the conflicts going on in the DRC many are no longer safe, especially women. I watched a video on BBC News that talks about the women of the DRC and the horrific struggles that they are up against. Women and children have been kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army.Many people know nothing about these women and have not heard their stories. Why haven't these womens stories been told? Why is the government not doing anything to stop then soldiers from doing these actions? These women are forced to suffer for the rest of there lives without there stories being heard.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7740948.stm
The second article that I read about had to do with the killings of the Hutu people and how the murders could be argued as a genocide. More than one million Hutu people fled Rwanda for DR Congo during the fighting.
The report says several incidents in 1996 and 1997 pointed to circumstances and facts from which a court could infer the intention to destroy the Hutu ethnic group in the DRC in part.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11450093
