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John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs rape congo republic
Monday, Oct. 08, 2007

Open quoteThe sheer numbers, the wholesale brutality, the culture of impunity — it's appalling. Close quote

  • JOHN HOLMES
  • the U.N. Under Secretary General for humanitarian affairs, on the "rape epidemic" that has seized eastern Congo
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