Yes, this is such a powerful observation. I think you're exactly right. One other thing I think I've heard other experts on Congo say is that many armed groups try very hard not to fight each other, and instead, in a very cowardly way, end up exerting force on civilian populations almost as their way of showing how strong they are.
So it is often truly a war fought on the battleground of women's bodies, and more broadly on civilian communities, rather than through direct combat between armed groups. I think this is one of the saddest and most shocking things about the conflict in DRC.