DR Congo Women Need Voice in Talks

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is ‘the 'capital of rape',’ says Bineta Diop, the founder of Femmes Africa Solidarité. In the country’'s ongoing crisis all sides have used sexual violence as a weapon, making it crucially important that women participate in peace talks currently taking place in Kampala, Diop says.

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  • Congo-Kinshasa:  Bring Women into DRC Peace Talks - Diop

    allAfrica.com, 16 December 2012

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    Dec 17 2012, 10:45

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  • foryohjonathan0000
    Dec 16 2012, 06:29

    WE AFRICANS HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND THINK ABOUT IT; THERE'S A TECHNICALITY POINT OF WHAT DIOP IS SAYING ABOUT PEACE TALK IN DRC WHEN HE MENTIONED THAT BRING WOMEN INTO DRC PEACE TALKS. IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.

  • ras sideeq
    Dec 16 2012, 16:55

    "I ALSO AGREE THAT OUR SISTERS SHOULD BE PRESENT AT THE PEACE TALKS AS THEY HAVE THE MOST TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES WHICH IS LONG AND HARD. MY OTHER POINT IS AS A CYNIC I SINCERLY BELIEVE THAT THE WEST WANTS A A UNSATBLE CONCO"" AS OUR SISTER POINTED OUT IT IS THE SIZE OF WETERN EUROPE AND THE MOST RESOURCED FILLED NATION IN ALL AFRICA???!!!. WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT THE USES OF RUMOURS IS SOMEHTING THAT KEEPS PEOPLE FROM UNITING AND THIS UNDERMINESPEACE!!!!! THE WEST IS VERY GOOD AT RUMOUR MONGERING THIS WAS A TACTIC THEY USED IN WASHINGTON TO IDSMANTLE THE LIBERATION STRIUGGLE OF AFRICAN AMERIXANS. THE WEST LIKES TO C4RIMINALISE AFRICANS EITHER FROM THE CONTINENT OR FROM THE DECENDANTS OF AFRICANS WHOM THEY HAD IN CAPTIVITY IN THE WEST".' THEY LOVE TO IMPRISON AND AS I SAID CRIMINALISE BLACK PEOPLE WORLD WIDE. WE MUST BE CAREFUL HOW WE LOOK AT EACH OTHER ; THE ADAPTING OF THESE VALUES OF RAPING OUR EARTH' WHO THESE WOMEN ARE TO US THEY ARE THE SOIL WHICH BRINGS FORTH LIFE!! WITHOUT THEM WE DIE!!!!!! SELF HATING IS NOT UNCOMMON EXACTING REVENGE ON OUR LOVED ONES ACTING OUT IN THE WAYS THAT WERE COMMON FOR OUR OPPRESSORS TO BEHAVE". RAPE BRUTALITY WAS THE WAY THAT WAS USED BY THE EUROPEANS TO MAINTAIN THIER POWER OVER THE PEOPLE OF AFRICAN COLONIES". IT IS IMPORTANT TO EDUCATE OUR YOUTHS AND MAKE THEM OVERSTAND THAT THIS PRACTICE IS NOT AFRICAN BY DESIGN BUT AN IMPORTED UNWORTHY PRACTICE BY BARBARIC PEOPLE!!!. WHEN WE LISTEN TO PRESS FROM THE WEST THEY SEEM TO WANT US TO BELIVE THAT THESE ANIMALISTIC ATTRIBUTES WERE BORN OF AFRICAN CHARCATERISTICS ;;;; NO THEY WERE MOST DEFINITELY NOT. THIS SI WHY IS SAY TO AFRICA WE MUST EDUCATE EDUCATE ABOUT THE BARBARITY THAT AFRICANS HAVE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF ORU OPPRESSORS THE LEGACY THEY LEFT HAS BENN DISGRACEFUL IGNOBLE AND NOT TO BE EMULATED. IT IS EASY TO TRANSFER THE BEHAVIOURS OF OUR COLONIZERS BUT AGAIN THESE ARE PRACTICES NOT EMBELISH. THE THOUGHTS OF MANY IS THAT THIS WAS THEY WERE KEPT UNDER THE THUMB OF THE COLONIZERS SO IT MUST BE A RIGHT THING TO DO... PEOPLETEND TO EMULATE WHAT THEY SEE AS STRENGTH AND WHAT WORKS, THIS HAS BEEN PASSED ON FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. THE BLACK MAN WAS NOT SEEN AS THE DEFENDER OF THE BLACK WOMAN SHE WAS ALWAYS THE PREY SO ITS NATURAL FOR THE MALES WHO WITNESSED THESE ACTS OF BRUTALITY SAW IT AS A MEANS FO STERNGTH AND POWER!!!. WITH MANY AFRICANS SEEING TO BELIVE IN THSI WHITE GOD JESUS WHOM THERE HAS BEEN PHTOGRAPHS TO EMPOWER THE WHITE MAN AS GOD THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT WE WILL WITNES THESE ATTROCITIES TILL WE EDUCATE ORU CHILDREN." THE IDEA THAT EACH ONE TEACH ONE" IS IDEOLOGY THAT NEEDS TO SPREAD THRUIOUT THESE PLACES WHERE EDUCATION IS LACKING . BLACK PEOPLE MUST KNOW, THEY NEED TO RECOGNISE THAT THE BLACK WOMAN IS VITAL THIER SURVIVAL . THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE GREAT PENALTIES FOR THESE TYPES OF PRACTICES ; THIS IDEOLOGY MUST BE ABANDONED, THIS IS A EUROPEAN IMPORT THAT IS TRULY UNWORTHY . THE EVIL NATURE OF THIS PARCTICE ALONG WITH THE GUNS THE AMMUNITON THAT HAS BECOME PART OF AFRICAN PSCYE MUST BE COMPLETY ISOLATED FROM OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS." WE NEED TO HAVE PROFESSIONAL ARMIES WELL TRAINED WITH PROPER SALRIES AND WE NEED TO GET CRACKING WITH ROADS INFRASTRUCTURE SO THAT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY CAN EXCELL IN DRC". "LET US BE REAL WITH ALL THESE RESOURCES THE NEED FOR IMPROTING' COMPUTERS SOLAR PANELS CELL PHONES TVS WOULD BE NO MORE!!!. "THE DRC COULD BE THE HUB OF AFRICAN TECHNOLOGICAL MANUFACTURING ALSO THE PLANET "... TECHNOLOGY; THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO GET THE KNOWLEDGE, OR MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE MANUFACTURERS OF THESE PRODUCTS TO HAVE A STABLE ENVIRONMENT WHICH TO MAKE THESE PRODUCTS AND PROVIDE FOR THE POPULATION AND A WIDER AFRICAN MARKET." THERE IS SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR WORK FOR PROGRESS ITS UNBELIEVABLE , DO OYU REALISE THAT SHOULD YOU BECOME OWNERS AND MANUFACTURUERES THAT PRICES OF GOODS IN CONGO WOULD BE SO CHEAP THAT LIFE WOULD BE AT ITS HIGHEST FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS"." AFRICA OH SWEET AFRICA'!!! LISTEN TO YOUR HEARTS AND LOVE YOURSELVES LOVE LIFE DO NOT BECOME FOOLED BY PROPOGANDA LIES AND MISINFORMATION!!!. "WE NEED TO LOOK PAST THE LIES AND LOOK AT THE RESOURCES' LOOK AT THE VALUE OF YOUR ASSETS, "THERE IS NO ON ELSE ON THE PLANET THAT HAS A NATION AS RICH AS YOURS????". "THERE WILL BE CONSPIRACIES TO KEEP YOU IN CONFLICT A THERE WILL BE RUMOUR MONGERTING OF ALL TYPES TO KEEP YOU DIVIDED!! IT IS UP TO YOU TO STICK THE EAR MUFFS ON STOP LISTENING TO OUTSIDE AGGITATION AND TRULY STOP THE CORRUPTION!!!!!. "LOOK AT IMPROVING LIVES AND YOU WILL SEE THAT EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE FOR A WEALTHY NATION WILL HAPPEN FOR YOU"". IT IS NOT ABOUT EXTRACTING AND SELLING RAW MATERIALS THEN THERE IS NOT ENOUGH JOBS AND PROFESSIONS FOR THE PEOPLE . THERE NEEDS TO BE COMPREHENSIVE AGRI BUSINESES THERE NEEDS TO BE GOLD DIAMONS ORE AND REFINERIES OF EVERY CONCEIVABLE RESOURCE". "YOU HAVE THE ENERGY CAPABILITY WITH WATER POWER AND THE MANUFACTURING OF SOLAR PANELS DRC COULD BE THE MODERN WORK SHOP OF THE PLANET!!!; WITH ALL CLEAN ENERGY AT OUR DISPOSAL, WITHOUT DESTROYING ONE INCH OF THE PLANET WITHOUT EMITTING ANY UNCLEAN POLLUTANTS .." MY BROTERS NEED TO BRING OUR LADIES ALONG TO HEAR THIER PLIGHT SO YOU CAN SIGHT THAT THERE IS A BETTER FUTURE FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!! "MAY OUR ALLMIGHTY GOD" GUIDE AND PROTECT OUR QUEENS' FROM THIS DASTARDLY DEVIOUS SEED THAT HAS BEEN PLANTED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN THE PROMISED LAND" BY THE HANDS OF DEVILS. "THIS IS AN AFRICAN PROBLEM THAT WAS LEFT TO US BY OUR FORMER DICTATORS THIS IS WHY WE MUST REJECT THE ICC'; THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION TO THIER WASTE THAT THEY LEFT FOR US TO CLEAN UP'. "IT IS UP TO US' TO CLEAN OUR HOUSE", 'THEY LEFT THE MESS BUT THEY ARE GONE ,,"GLORY TO THE MOST HIGH GOD" " IT IS TIME NOW FOR US TO BRUSH THEM AND THIER WAYS OUT OF AFRICA FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!!!!!!!PEACE LOVE TO ALL MY WONDERFUL AND GRACIOUS SISTERS WHOM HAS TO SUFFER SO MUCH' FEAR NOT TRUST IN THE GOD OF YOUR FORE FATHERS " THE TRUE AN LIVING ALL MIGHTY SOVEREIGN INDIVSIBLE GOD". THIS WAS THE GOD THAT WE PRAISED'.. 'THEY TOLD US WE WERE SAVAGES AND BACKWARDS , 'SO THEY GAVE US A MAN GOD SAYING THIS IS WHOM YOU MUST TURN TO?????. "OUR LORD "HE " IS UNSEEN BY MAN ,HIS POWERS SO VAST THAT THERE IS NONE TO COMPARE HIM TO"!!.. "HE " THE FATHER OF ALL CREATION 'THE SUN THE MOON THE STARS THAT NUMBER IN THIER TRILLIUON'S, WE CAN NOT BEGIN TO SIGHT HIS GLORY'; "HE" THE MASTER OF ALL THINGS" ALL HE' ASKS OF US THAT WE BELIEVE!!! "OUR FORE FATHERS DID !!, THEY DESTROYED THESE BELIEF'S AND HAVE LEFT THIS LEGACY OF RAPE BRUTALITY MUTILATIONS AND ALL THE INIQUITY AND ABOMINATIONS THAT THEY HAVE CREATED UPON THE EARTH". "STAND FIRM TRUST AND I ASSURE YOU THAT YOU WILL PREVAIL!!!!!! PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!

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