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Rape As A Weapon Of War
Rape as a weapon of war.
Soldiers and militiamen have raped women around some village in Congo. Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been raped maybe more. Many women have been so aggressively attacked from inside out, and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair.hundreds of thousands of women have been raped,most of them gang raped. The rape as a weapon of war is about women and girls have suffered attack, leaving them physically damage and emotionally frightened. People do all kind of evil to one another and it never fails to surprise me anything till I saw this movie about rape as a weapon of war, I was so disturb by wactching those female going through all kind of emotional

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