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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Congolese army’s campaign of rape and looting in South Kivu

Victims and witnesses provide IRIN with dozens of horrifying first-hand accounts of violent sexual assault

Philip Kleinfeld

The 36-year-old, who asked not be named, is one of dozens of women to accuse soldiers battling a new insurgency in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern South Kivu province of rape and sexual violence.

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