“The situation has become so extreme that Margaret Wallstrom, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, has called the DRC ‘the rape capital of the world’.

More than 5.4 million have died since the conflict began in 1998. The death toll is equivalent to an Asian Tsunami every six months or so, or a September 11th every two and a half days.”

. New Statesman, July 2, 2010 http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the- staggers/2010/07/congo-drc-women-war-violence