Not for the faint of heart

This is a tough read from Newsweek... It details the systematic brutal rape of women in the Congo. Read with caution...

It had been no secret that nearly all sides in the Congo's complex civil
war resorted to systematic rape among civilian populations, and estimates were
as high as a quarter million victims of sexual assault during the four-year-long
conflict. But once fighting died down, victims began coming out of the jungles
and forests and their condition was worse than anyone had imagined. Thousands of
women had been raped so brutally that they had fistulas. They wandered into
hospitals soaked in their own urine and feces, rendered incontinent by their
injuries. "Pastors would say to me, 'Jo, I can't preach because the church is
too smelly," says Dr. Jo Lusi, a gynecologist and medical director at
HEAL. Read it here>