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WAR CRIMES
FAILED, SCARRED AND MUTILIATED: The Woment victims of a forgotten war of horror
Deliberate mass rape on an unprecedented scale has been carried out against women during the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yet these brutal events have gone widely unreported. Munizha Ahmad on a crime the world has chosen to ignore

WHILE THE US-led War on Terror continues to dominate the headlines, the terror that has characterised life in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since war broke out in 1998 has received scant international coverage. Scattered stories have only recently begun to emerge of the devastation wreaked by the violence on this country the size of Western Europe