War on Women
Unlike some of my posts, this post is not meant to be clever, entertaining or even a debate starter. This post is meant to inform you of something that I feel should be more known. Call me ignorant but I had never before heard of this war until tonight when I first watched it on 60 Minutes. The video is below and I highly suggest that you watch it in full but it is 12 minutes long... For those of you too busy to sit for 12 mintues and watch, here is a very basic and unemotional break down of the story (skip it if you watch the video):
Basically, there is currently a war taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a war in which more people have died than in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur combined. However, it is not the deaths that makes this war so alarming. It is instead the fact that women are usually the targets of this war and that the main way that these soldiers destroy the lives of these women, their families and their communities is through rape.
I don't have a question or conversation starter for this one. I just want to know what you all think.