Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'll try also to answer that question by saying that Canada has long been in the Congo, especially in the east. Canada is a co-chair today of the international conference on the Great Lakes region. Through CIDA, Canada is still sending a lot of money to the east. So those are rea

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If you go back a little bit in the peace process in South Africa, there were some five points that we wanted to develop in that. When they went there, instead of talking about things like reunification of the country, peace in the country, and all those kinds of things, they didn

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Let me add something to what my colleague has just said. Speaking only about the east, there are at least 22 armed groups in North Kivu and South Kivu alone. Their leaders are mostly Rwandan. They claim that they are trying to get away from the conflict, but the facts have not ye

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  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

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'll continue to finish my presentation so I can give you an understanding that the situation is so tough for me. I am a victim of this. I lost some of my family members. I'll say why Canada is needed in the Congo. We said Canada has been maintaining its longstanding presence i

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My name is Desire Kilolwa. Actually I am a co-founder of the organization called Congo Yetu Initiative. We've been working in the Congo since 2000. I am with Charmian.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We are trying to give our brief presentation for the country. The Democratic Republic of Congo is located in central Africa. It is the second-largest country by area in Africa. It used to be the third-largest, but after the new country was established in Sudan, we have become t