The government wouldn’t stop a powerful politician from allegedly gang-raping 50 young girls — until it got a little bad press.
- By Lauren Wolfe
- FP
- June 23, 2016
It was in a sickly green, fluorescent-lit meeting room in Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a couple of years ago that someone whispered to me that babies were being gang-raped in a nearby town.