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Erin Morgan

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Rape reached epidemic proportions in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the war.  The UN recently passed a resolution not only condemning sexual violence used as a weapon but to send experts to countries to  tell them how prosecute the offenders.    That's difficult to do when the governments' armies and police forces are the rapists.

Rape as a weapon of war

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