Clinics have been looted or destroyed. Women live in fear. I heard horrific stories of rape, abuse, and torture. Women are being raped in front of their husbands and children. We were told that just two days before I arrived in Bukavu, a woman was raped in the marketplace at 10 a.m. and no one intervened.
Priests are targets, too.
At least six have been killed in eastern Congo since 1998. Amazingly, the world stood by and watched. While the genocide is now over, the memory is still fresh. The first place I visited in Rwanda was the Murambi Technical School. More than 50,000 people were slaughtered in the villages near the school during the genocide.