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Case COD 011106.CC.VAW

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Brief description of the situation:

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by reliable sources, including the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights (ASADHO), member of the SOS-Torture network, of the rape of a girl of 13 years of age and the rape followed by killing and mutilation of her mother Mrs. Malenga Ramazani, 37 years-old and mother of five children, in Kichula, a village located near mount Mitumba, in the Eastern Province of South Kivu.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/congo/story/0,,1947147,00.html

· Scale of attacks emerges as fighting decreases
· Rights groups say militias see it as weapon of war
Chris McGreal in Goma
Tuesday November 14, 2006
The Guardian

Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped over the past decade by soldiers, rebels and ethnic militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo.