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The Documentary Podcast

Peace and justice: Sexual violence in the DRC

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

More than a decade after the UN raised the alarm on the scale of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sexual violence remains a persistent issue. Congolese journalist Ruth Omar investigates the complex issues that continue to feed the problem, and meets local activists fighting for change.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the sound of crowd science.

0:03.0

She shoot a laser beam at this atom.

0:06.0

Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?

0:09.0

Oh, there's a wasp in there.

0:10.0

Yeah, perhaps possibly the most disgusting thing I've heard this morning.

0:14.0

But it's one of the nicest fun facts you'll go into here today.

0:17.0

So here I'm actually holding a donut.

0:19.0

What are you going to do with that?

0:20.0

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

0:22.0

One who believes women is actually a very, very powerful thing.

0:31.0

And she said, when a soldier stops you in the, in the field,

0:36.0

if you're carrying a food, if you're carrying money,

0:39.0

they take all of these.

0:41.0

Then if you have a son with you, they take that kid from you.

0:45.0

They take your clothes, they take everything from you.

0:48.0

And then she said, in the end, when there's nothing left,

0:51.0

they rape you because women's bodies have seen the product to be looted.

0:57.0

Where are we going?

1:00.0

My name is Rulthomer.

1:02.0

I'm a journalist in my home city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

1:07.0

In 2010, the United Nations described my country as the rap capital of the world.

1:14.0

I became aware of sexual violence when I was very young.

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