The Rape Generation: Rebel Bullets Part 2

Imagine you are a widow with grown up children and faded memories of pregnancy and childbearing.  Then a rape incident leaves you nursing an illegitimate baby and the silent condemnation of your children for betraying their late dad. Do you confess that mother was raped? And if you do, how will the children relate with a sibling born of the unforgiveable insult to their own mother? This is a widespread dilemma for women in the democratic republic of Congo where rape and other sexual abuses have been rampant in the two decades of civil war. And as Anne Mawathe visit to DRC observed, too little is being done to arrest the rape plague.