Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Congolese women victims shunned by their spouses

A Congolese women after being raped  rebel groups, women in eastern of the DRC face lot of pain and humiliation of being repudiated by some of their husbands. One of them said in the village of Nakiele where soldiers and rebels raped more than 100 women in early June this year"My husband refuses to share a bed with me. I sleep on the floor,and he rejects the meals I cooked for him". Why I should abandoned said the women, who is 19 years old with a six months old-baby. In Nakiele, a village of 12 300 perched on a hill overlooking the Fizi plateau in South Kivu province, 121 women told a hospital doctor that they were raped on the night of June 11 by renegate troops. Since that night, more than a dozen of them have been disowned by their husband.

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