I would just add that the weapon being used at the moment, as my colleague has just described, is the rape itself. There were rapes in Afghanistan and in Kosovo, but the rapes in the Congo are really abnormal. It even goes beyond the rape; it is something more. I do not see what interest a 40-year-old man can have in raping a little girl of 4 or 5. What feelings can he have? What pleasure can he get? What pleasure can a man, 10 men even, get from raping a 90-year-old woman? The intent goes deeper. As my colleague said, the intent is to destroy an entire community. That is why she said we need to give it a name other than raping women. For us, it is genocide because it puts an entire community in peril.
On October 27th, 2011. See this statement in context.