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...revealed the story of the world's deadliest conflict - a Congolese war in which scores of women are raped, and hundreds of men, women, and children are killed on a daily basis. Shannon sacrificed a comfortable job, left her fiancé and raised $50,000 to sponsor women in Congo. Once there, she documented a seemingly forgotten war and continues her work in the country. She tells the story in her new book A Thousand Sisters. She talked to TIME about the international community's shocking silence, how Congo copes and why you don't need to go to there...
...drag her out of the house and save her. Next door, they killed an entire wedding party. That kind of attack, where 30 or 50 people are killed at one time, was standard in the village of Kaniola. (See "U.N. Report: From Bad to Worse in War-Torn Congo...
...this violence is still happening? Absolutely. There have been many times I've heard people frame Congo like it's post-conflict. Congolese people find that idea really offensive. I've talked to a number of women who have been raped by the Congolese army. Security is all relative and things may shift in terms of what militia is doing what at any given moment...
...international community unaware? The U.S. government isn't doing more because they aren't hearing from Americans. We need to ask questions about the way we relate to Africa and what we consider baseline violence. People tend to hear about situations like Congo and say things like "it's tribal, rape is cultural in Africa." That I find fundamentally offensive and categorically inaccurate. If you talk to any Congolese person they would say that before 1996, these were not issues...
...report focuses on the iconic gorillas of eastern Congo. But researchers say the western gorillas, though greater in number, are dying at a much faster rate. That's because they don't attract nearly the attention that Virunga's mountain gorillas do and live in areas where poachers escape punishment easily. "The most critical challenge that we face in central Africa is undoubtedly a lack of law enforcement," says David Greer, coordinator of the African Great Apes Program at the World Wildlife Fund. "In no uncertain terms, it's the ubiquitous impunity in this region. Nobody is held accountable...