Congo-Kinshasa: Congolese Soldiers Gang-Raped Women On Central African Ferry

Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba's troops gang-raped women on the ferry that transported them to the Central African Republic (CAR), according to testimony heard today.

Cyprien-Francis Ossibouyen, the technician who operated the state-owned ferry that plied the Oubangui river, told the trial that he witnessed a second gang-rape incident at a naval base.

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