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Report: Tens of Thousands Raped in Eastern DRC
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Human Rights Watch says government soldiers and rebel forces have
sexually assaulted females on a daily basis since fighting broke out
in 1998 A human rights group says tens of thousands of women and girls
in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been
raped by armed groups on both sides of the conflict.

U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says government soldiers and rebel
forces have sexually assaulted females on a daily basis since fighting
broke out in 1998.  But the group says only a handful have been
prosecuted for the crimes.

Human Rights Watch says many more incidents of rape have probably gone
unreported in the Congo. 

Some information for this report provided by AP, Reuters.


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