Gangs keep sex slaves in Congo
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WOMEN and children are being kidnapped by armed gangs and forced to work as sex slaves in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) claimed yesterday.
“Victims have been held as sex slaves — sometimes for months at a time — and sexually assaulted violently by several men, several times a day,” MSF psychologist Ana Maria Tijerino said in a statement.
The aid group also warned that men are being kidnapped and put to work as laborers in the gold and diamond mining region of Okapi, in the east of the vast, mineral-rich nation.
In just one village between May and early July, MSF said its medical teams provided consultations for 3,586 people and treated 143 women, three men and two children who had suffered sexual violence.
Last month a team treated 20 women in a single village who had been raped, it said.
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