Congo-Kinshasa: After Minova - Can War Crimes Trials Overcome Violence in the DRC?

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On 20th November, 2012, over 130 women and girls in eastern DR Congo were raped and sexually assaulted by members of the Congolese armed forces.

The incident occurred after hundreds of soldiers from the national army were driven out of the provincial capital of Goma by the M23 rebel group. Humiliated by military defeat, soldiers arrived en masse in the nearby town of Minova, where they engaged in systematic looting, pillaging and raping of local civilians.

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