She said that from the start, her group had brought large-scale rape in military camps and villages to the attention of the investigators but that it was ignored.
"(U.N. human rights staff) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has confirmed that large-scale rape, pillaging, and cruel and degrading treatment were committed in Nakiele, in South Kivu province between the 11th and 13th of June by troops of the armed forces," spokesman Rupert Colville told a news briefing.
I am financing mass rape as I enjoy these ridiculously Global North ultra-efficiencies and conveniences, for large scale rape is the preferred predation mining interests use to humiliate and terrify local populations, in order to control resource areas.
The Hague court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has said that one of the hallmarks of the F.D.L.R. has been a large-scale campaign of rape to terrorize the population in Congo's Kivu region.
Violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past decade has been associated with a large-scale epidemic of rape [1], [2].
"Mali has just come through a period of conflict that has seen large-scale population movements, as well as rapes," she says.
It is an enduring cultural problem, one that was familiar to Roman authors, who had to contend with their city's being founded on a large-scale program of sexual violence — the rape of the Sabine women.
The research, published in Nature scientific reports on Thursday, combined large-scale pesticide usage and yield observations from oilseed rape with data on honeybee loses between 2000 and 2010.
Potential environmental as well as socio-economic effects of the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) oilseed rape (OSR) may be caused by large-scale dispersal of transgenes.
Hilde Johnson, head of the UN mission in South Sudan, told the BBC the report showed "how ethnicity has contributed to large-scale violence in the form of mass killings, disappearances, rape and sexual violence of different sorts, abductions, extrajudicial killings".
