http://www.guardian.co.uk/congo/story/0,12292,1440139,00.html
Pretty sickening. Best of luck to the UN at stopping this one day; IMO, it doesn't belong in real life, except maybe between consenting partners.
"In one corner, there was already cooked flesh from bodies and two bodies being grilled on a barbecue and, at the same time, they prepared her two little girls, putting them alive in two big pots filled with boiling water and oil."
This is really sick shit.
I hope UN takes them out ASAP.
War in Africa is a very raw thing. Kinda happens when you cannot always shoot from miles and miles of distances via some fancy screen and joystick.
And the UN won't do jack shit. With what anyway? They got nothing.
I can understand the need for tactics that first-world countries would consider barbaric, but I don't see the military value in gang-raping women and boiling their daughters alive.
> I don't see the military value in gang-raping women and boiling their daughters alive.
Deterrence through cruelty
lol @ blaKKKz
Rape is, or was, considered a legitimate weapon of war because by traumatizing the female relatives of the enemy it demoralized the troops.
That's what I've heard anyway.
Rape was considered a legitimate weapon of war because it was so much fun!
Having Michael Crichton as source material doesn't make this authentic, but the truth is that tribes in the Congo region have practiced tribal/religious oriented cannibalism since antiquity. According to Crichton's book "Congo", some tribes evolved this practice under the control of their sorcerers. Sorcerers (or "Angawa" as Crichton writes) imbued spiritual gifts to their warriors. The opposing tribe would eat their enemies, frustrating the opposing Angawa's efforts.
Now, if the above is true, you can suppose that these tribes as a social group developed their practice of cannibalism in the modern 20th and 21st centuries, no longer as a cultural practice, but solely as a response to a threat. Given the animosities that have lasted for decades (maybe even longer) between different tribes in the Congo region, the UN's intervention would have to reach deeply into the culture and either remove the supersititions that reinforce their cannibal behavior or (gasp) remove entire tribes. The situation is shocking and atrocities are growing, on both sides.
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Rape is a weapon of war because it humiliates the enemy and degradates the respected elderly, the promising youth, and defies mores held by the enemy (whether your own mores are defied is beside the point).
A couple years ago I wrote a paper about child soldiers in Africa and there were reports that cannibalism was occasionally used as part of the recruiting process. They kill all the adults in a village, then had a 10 year old boy a kife and tell him to cut off his sisters leg and eat it. If he did it he became part of their gang. If he didn't they'd shoot him in the head.
And yes, they use rape to demoralize the enemy. Plus the guys doing the raping enjoy it. I've even heard reports of so-called "AIDS Squads", which consisted of soldiers diagnosed with AIDS who were sent on missions to rape as many of the enemy's women as possible and infect them.
Uziga should draw a manga about this. It'd make a cool sequel to his latest work. He could call it MODERN STORIES OF THE BIZARRE: AFRIKA.
Truth is stranger than fiction, eh?
It's not Africa if it's the same story. It was Colombia. Possible though that it happens elsewhere, too.
