From War Is Boring:Kinshasa — Sexual violence is a huge problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo: everyone knows it. But just how huge? And who exactly are the victims? A mostly American team comprising representatives from several universities plus the U.S. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the U.S. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and U.S. Special Operations Command Africa — part of U.S. Africa Command — surveyed a thousand households across Congo this spring and came up with some surprising results. The full study, which was co-funded by universities and the U.S. Army, is behind a firewall at the Journal of the American Medical Association, but the abstract isn’t.
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My Comment: My gut tells me that David Axe is right, what the media is reporting is probably just the tip of the iceberg on how rape has now become an integral part in this part of Africa.
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