1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:29,040 For 15 years, 4 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,479 I have witnessed mass atrocities 5 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,320 committed on women's bodies, against women. 6 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 I cannot stand idly by. 7 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:40,920 In conflict zones, 8 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,640 battles take place on women's bodies. 9 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,920 The rapes are extremely brutal, 10 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:50,920 a veritable weapon of war, 11 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,360 perhaps even a strategy of war, 12 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:55,760 which is cheap, 13 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,040 but devastatingly effective. 14 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,760 Their wounded bodies, 15 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,760 their broken hearts, 16 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,080 and their destroyed spirits, 17 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,200 needed to be healed, 18 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,120 consoled and restored. 19 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,440 We have hope for the future 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,760 of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 21 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:34,240 We hope that this great country will become a nation 22 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:39,280 of peace and justice. Thank you. 23 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,480 I was raped. 24 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,360 My parents had sent me to the fields to get manioc. 25 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,440 The men took me by surprise and threw me to the ground. 26 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,280 They undressed me and raped me. 27 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,880 There were two of them. 28 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,760 When the first one finished raping me, 29 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,280 the second one raped me, 30 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,960 then they left. 31 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,480 I don't know what they destroyed, 32 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,720 but here, around the vagina, still hurts very badly. 33 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,200 Is there a wound? 34 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:20,480 I don't know if it's a wound or Aids. 35 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,080 My chest hurts very badly too, 36 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,680 and my hips hurt the most. 37 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,840 It hurts, I don't feel well. 38 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:37,840 What if we showed you the people who raped you? 39 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:41,680 I want them to go away. 40 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,680 Go where? 41 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,320 Or for them to suffer like I did and then die. 42 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,120 From 1996 on, 43 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,960 the Hutu came to take refuge here. 44 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,280 We welcomed them as war refugees. 45 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:09,160 We gave them food to eat and housed them. 46 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,640 They started abducting us, raping the women 47 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:18,360 and taking them into the forest with them. 48 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,920 When they snatched us, 49 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,560 they tied us up like slaves. 50 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,000 They spread us out, like Christ on the cross. 51 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:35,080 They terrorized us. 52 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,760 It went on for eight months. 53 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,920 But one day, during an attack by Congolese soldiers, 54 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,920 we managed to escape. 55 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,960 We were asked how many men had raped us. 56 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,840 We replied that all of them had had their way with us. 57 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:51,800 This lesion 58 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,760 was certainly caused by the penetration of sharp objects 59 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,000 into the vagina. 60 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,720 We should have operated on her in August, 61 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,880 but she waited. We'll take her this afternoon. 62 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,000 Help me. 63 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,320 I've been in great pain since the operations on my womb. 64 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,760 They are excluded by their community, 65 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,120 by their family. 66 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:37,400 The husband may have left, and they are handicapped 67 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:43,160 and all alone, sadly abandoned by everyone. 68 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,320 When they get here, they have such a terrible sadness. 69 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:02,760 So a smile is the sign that they're coming back to life. 70 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,400 The joy of these patients 71 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,600 is an important feedback for us. 72 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,240 It's a huge boost to carry on our work. 73 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:29,000 I was working in the fields when the Hutu rebels arrived. 74 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,920 I was stabbed in the genitals. 75 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,920 My internal organs were badly damaged. 76 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,560 I ended up in the operating theatre 77 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,080 and the doctor started to treat me. 78 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,880 He saw that the feces and urine were passing down the same canal. 79 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,280 This is my ninth operation. 80 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:03,880 "They have damaged you terribly, I've never seen anything like it." 81 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:09,280 He fights, he touches my urine, my feces. 82 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:13,440 When I saw that, I felt love again, for myself and for him. 83 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,160 I learned to love myself again 84 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,040 and felt that there was hope. 85 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,840 I see that I still have a future, 86 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,960 I feel a new surge of energy. 87 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:33,880 I often wonder how this person can get back up, 88 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,040 stand up straight. 89 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,720 I am incredibly impressed. 90 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,080 I think that what they go through 91 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,240 is enough to finish them off once and for all. 92 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,240 But these are courageous women, who revive, 93 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,160 and not only for themselves, but for others too. 94 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,520 Not only do they fight for their rights, 95 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,360 but also for the rights of their children, 96 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:00,920 the rights of their community, the rights of their peers. 97 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,480 I think the future of this country 98 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,920 lies with these women, who are wonderful. 99 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,360 As you know, 100 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:59,760 we are transferring files to Panzi hospital, 101 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,520 to Dr. Mukwege. 102 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:08,160 His work starts with our action. 103 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,960 The war has traumatized us. 104 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,040 "Open the door!" 105 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,880 You're there, in your house, 106 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,200 and they brandish their weapons, they terrorize you. 107 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,320 They tell you to lie down 108 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,080 and they rape you, in front of your children, your husband, 109 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,960 In front of your family. 110 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,200 Then they force your husband to rape you in front of your children. 111 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,000 Sometimes, they order 112 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,960 the children, the sons present in the house, 113 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,960 to rape their mother in front of the other children. 114 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:56,360 If the son refuses, he is killed on the spot. 115 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,400 There are also women 116 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,680 who have had wooden sticks or bayonets stuck up their vagina. 117 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,840 Others are taken into the bush to become sexual slaves. 118 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,080 And it's not over. 119 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,760 Our own sons of the Congo are starting to rape us too. 120 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,600 It's still going on today. 121 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,840 Our own sons copy them and rape our daughters! 122 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,000 Be quick about it! 123 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,440 Calm down. 124 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,720 No, no! Don't change your target. 125 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,240 A little lower. 126 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,839 - They used all sorts of things to kill them. - Even hammers. 127 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:09,880 They smashed their heads to a pulp. 128 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,240 This is the sort of weapons they used. 129 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:18,640 On someone's head! This is blood. 130 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:20,440 Who could survive that? 131 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,760 Give me that too. - There were machetes and knives. 132 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:26,599 This too. 133 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,200 See? Who could survive that? 134 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,920 I don't want to stay here anymore. 135 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,840 They hurt me so much. 136 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,360 They killed my father and mother. 137 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,040 I just want to live in peace. 138 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,440 I loved going to school. 139 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,440 I don't know if I'll be brave enough to go back. 140 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,840 My eye hurts badly 141 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,320 and my teeth cause me great pain. 142 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,720 I thank the Lord for meeting me here. 143 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,240 My tears flow, 144 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,680 for a man and some women who were buried alive, 145 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,680 here in Mwenga. 146 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,200 In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 147 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,280 I cry for my wife, Zibaruzizawadi 148 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,440 and for the others. 149 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,840 My dear wife, other victims, 150 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,080 I am alone with our children, 151 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,920 in sadness and pain. 152 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,640 The State doesn't help me and now I am old. 153 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:12,560 I know that you are now before the Lord, our God. 154 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,840 All my sisters were in this ditch, still alive, 155 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:26,440 along with others already covered with earth. 156 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,560 They could no longer talk. 157 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,400 What was in the ditch? 158 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,680 Water. We fell into water. 159 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,840 They beat me the whole way. 160 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,080 We spent the night next to a house, near here. 161 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,560 Five soldiers were guarding me. 162 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,640 All five of them raped me. 163 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,840 My face was deformed, 164 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,240 my head swollen, my fingers bleeding. 165 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,160 I had some money hidden under my clothes, 166 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:00,320 but the soldiers who raped me took it all. 167 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:02,760 I suffered a lot. 168 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,680 I can't bear to look at soldiers anymore, they are so brutal. 169 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,160 We can honestly speak of rape as a tactic of war, 170 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,760 a weapon of mass destruction, 171 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,240 which is the latest 172 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,960 vile, shameful and macabre invention of mankind 173 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,840 to destroy and kill others. 174 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,520 These acts are not motivated by sexual desire, 175 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,480 but rather the wish to destroy, 176 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,880 physically and psychologically, 177 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,480 family, community, a whole people. 178 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:09,080 This was the time when Kofi Annan was Secretary-General of the UN. 179 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:13,600 I found myself in the auditorium of the United Nations. 180 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,240 What struck me 181 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,360 was that I could see all the places with names of States, 182 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,560 where representatives should sit. 183 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:29,080 But where it said Democratic Republic of the Congo, 184 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,560 the chairs were empty! That was a message to me. 185 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:39,320 I would have liked... It was my dearest wish, 186 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,280 to have the support 187 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,360 of our representative. 188 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,280 But the chair was empty! 189 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,480 Four years later, in 2012, I returned to New York. 190 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,360 I was to make a speech before the United Nations 191 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,880 when I was invited 192 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:08,480 by the Congolese Health Minister, to the Waldorf Hotel. 193 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,480 I spoke with him, we talked a while. 194 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,120 "I'm telling you not to give your speech tomorrow." 195 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:30,600 "Just don't give your speech. 196 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,840 ”If you do, it's at your own risk." He was categorical, threatening. 197 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,520 If I gave my speech, I don't know what might have happened. 198 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,800 My family is in Bukavu, my children, my wife. 199 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,200 I can take risks for myself, 200 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,920 but not for my children and my wife. 201 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:56,760 So I cancelled my speech in 2012, I couldn't do it. 202 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,840 Worryingly, when I got back from the UN, 203 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,120 armed men were waiting for me at my home. 204 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,640 When I arrived here, 205 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,560 five men immediately 206 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,920 entered the vehicle, all of them armed. 207 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,720 The one behind me 208 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,040 stuck his gun in my neck. 209 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,960 The man next to me 210 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,840 was armed with an AK47. 211 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:46,440 The man with his gun to my neck made me get out. 212 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,360 I thought it was all over. 213 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:54,000 But just when I tried to make a break for the house, 214 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,080 in the time it took for him to fire at me, 215 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,040 poor Joseph appeared from out back 216 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,760 and started to shout. 217 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,440 "They're killing my father!" 218 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,720 The man turned 219 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,240 and fired at Joseph. 220 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,560 Joseph fell there 221 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,520 and I fell there, but I couldn't say what happened next. 222 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,920 Perhaps they thought I was dead too. 223 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:31,560 There was blood everywhere here. - Who was Jeff? 224 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,080 Jeff was my friend, my watchman. 225 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,280 He was also a friend of my children. 226 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,280 I was very scared 227 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,400 and decided to go into exile in Europe, with my family. 228 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,560 In Europe, 229 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:09,320 as I wondered what path my career would now take, 230 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,000 I learned that the Congolese women, in the Kivu, 231 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,680 had mobilized to ask me to return. 232 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,200 Some women clubbed together, 233 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,760 farmers who pooled their vegetables 234 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,320 in order to be able to pay for his plane ticket. 235 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,880 He was deeply touched. 236 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,480 And brushing aside all matters of security, 237 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,200 he decided to come back. 238 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,120 I was lucky enough to come back with him. 239 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,840 When we landed with the little plane, 240 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,760 it was chaos, the police had pulled out all the stops. 241 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,600 There were big bodyguards all around with infra-red glasses. 242 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,960 It was a real hullabaloo. 243 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,440 Then there were all the others there to welcome him. 244 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,640 There was as sort of whooping noise... 245 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,440 And we saw thousands of women arriving, 246 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,720 dancing past the barriers as if they didn't exist, 247 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,080 who came right up to Denis. 248 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,560 It was... I've never seen anything like it! 249 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,320 I've never seen such human warmth. 250 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,120 I've never seen such intensity. 251 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,360 On the road from the airport to the hospital, 252 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,040 there were thousands of people. 253 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,160 They emanated huge strength, amazing! 254 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,160 I'm sure they all 255 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,640 "Now we will be able to bring about change, 256 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,400 we humiliated women..." 257 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,920 For Denis, it sent a strong message 258 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:33,280 that now he was truly safe 259 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,880 and that the women were protecting him. 260 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,720 Together, we say no to sexual violence, 261 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,160 no to the rebellion, 262 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,920 no to those who wish to become ministers and generals 263 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,840 by killing their fellow countrymen. 264 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,600 We, the population, must say no! 265 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,960 When the Rwandans came, after the genocide, 266 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,120 that's when there were many, many rapes, 267 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,360 a big wave of violence, pillaging, etc. 268 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,200 The women needed justice. 269 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,880 They needed access to justice. 270 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,240 That's why we set up 271 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,680 the two legal clinics on this island. 272 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,920 When Dr. Mukwege went into exile, 273 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,600 these women called for his return. 274 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,160 For them, Dr. Mukwege was a savior. 275 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,320 Let's salute the president of our association, Dr. Mukwege! 276 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,640 Dr. Mukwege is our father. 277 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,160 When we heard they had tried to kill him, it hurt us badly. 278 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,640 All the women in Idjwi were sad when he left. 279 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,360 When he came back from exile, 280 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,960 we all went to welcome him at the hospital. 281 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,080 We were so happy. 282 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,640 We took our drums, chose some songs 283 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,040 and brought pineapples as a gift, 284 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,080 to welcome him. 285 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,320 We call him "the Messiah". 286 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,320 He is the savior, 287 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,880 and the savior is the Messiah. 288 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,280 Did the first activities we undertook 289 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,600 work or not? - Yes! 290 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,040 In the old days, women were despised 291 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,760 their rights were not respected. 292 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,440 Women could not express themselves in public. 293 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,920 Today, women are starting to express themselves like the men 294 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,680 and some of their rights have been recognized. 295 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,480 Before, in Idjwi, 296 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,880 no woman could inherit anything from her parents. 297 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,080 But now, thanks to Dr. Mukwege, 298 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,400 because we can go to the legal clinic 299 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,080 and get to court to claim our rights, all without charge, 300 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,920 we are starting to get our rights. 301 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,320 Legally speaking, 302 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,840 we're beginning to see 303 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,400 that even a girl who has been raped here, 304 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,160 has to be treated at Panzi 305 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,880 and there will be a legal follow-up. 306 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,120 The girl's family 307 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:06,880 will get their rights. 308 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,240 All we ask of you 309 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:11,720 is to stand firm. 310 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,560 Wherever we go, you show the good example. 311 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,480 I will always remember 312 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,200 that when Dr. Mukwege was in exile, 313 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,920 the initiative to contribute 314 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,920 the proceeds from your pineapples 315 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,880 came from Idjwi. 316 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,760 So this movement started in Idjwi. 317 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,080 These women started to act! 318 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,080 "Take this harvest and sell it 319 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,560 and pay the ticket!" 320 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,160 It all started with you. 321 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,040 That's what enabled the doctor to return. 322 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,120 He's an intelligent man. 323 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,480 He could have stayed in Europe and worked there. 324 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,520 "Because these women are asking for me, I'll go home." 325 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,520 - Hello, Doctor. - Hello. 326 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:15,040 - How are you? - Fine. 327 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:17,320 - Hello. - Hello. 328 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,760 - Are you ready? - Let's go. 329 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,720 This escort of Egyptian policemen 330 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,120 makes it possible for me to reach 331 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,840 places where I take huge risks. 332 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:42,920 Otherwise, I would be a prisoner at the hospital 333 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,080 and that's a life I couldn't bear for long. 334 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:48,000 I did my thesis in pediatrics, 335 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,680 but when I arrived here the first time, 336 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,760 what struck me was the women who came in 337 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,840 on stretchers. 338 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,680 Most of them were near death. 339 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,120 They came from the high plateaux and surrounding villages. 340 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,080 Quite honestly, I started to question 341 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,440 what it was I really wanted to do. 342 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,600 A few months later, I took the plane to Paris. 343 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:21,920 Then I went to Angers to study gynecology and obstetrics. 344 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:26,080 There were 35 gynecologists in the department. 345 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:31,560 When I thought of so many doctors there and nobody here, 346 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,120 I felt it was not fair to stay in France. 347 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,840 I felt a sense of responsibility. 348 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,280 I could not contemplate going elsewhere. 349 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,880 So my wife went to live in Bukavu with the children, 350 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,000 and I would stay here in Lemera 351 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,280 for two weeks at a stretch. I would leave twice a month 352 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,280 to see my family. 353 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,160 How long have you spent separated from your family like this? 354 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,360 Fifteen years. 355 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,960 It hasn't been easy. 356 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,840 I would climb the hills to get here, 357 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,480 it was very, very tough. 358 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,080 - On foot? - Yes, of course. 359 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,080 Gradually, things changed... 360 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,080 - Why not by car? - Because cars weren't for us. 361 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,280 They were for the Whites? - What do you think? 362 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,840 - You did 30 km on foot? - Absolutely. 363 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,320 It was very tough. 364 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,320 In fact, the first massacre committed 365 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,320 was here at the hospital. 366 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,240 The war practically started here. It was 20 years ago, 367 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,560 at the start of the war. 368 00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,640 Congolese rebels and Rwandan soldiers invaded the hospital 369 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,840 and slaughtered the patients in their beds. 370 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,680 Terrified, the survivors dug a common grave, 371 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,880 here where we stand, to bury the corpses. 372 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,160 When someone is able to kill a patient in his bed, 373 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,960 and is not prosecuted for such a crime, 374 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,560 I think it conveys everything we're going through now. 375 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:34,280 There has never been a legal investigation of the massacres here? 376 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:35,880 Never! 377 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,480 I think the impunity started here, right here. 378 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,120 Regarding the events of 1996, 379 00:39:55,320 --> 00:40:00,480 I have never had an explanation for why patients were killed in their beds. 380 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,080 I was their doctor. 381 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,560 I was responsible for those patients. 382 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,920 I had promised to protect them. 383 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,600 Unfortunately, I had left Lemera to help another sick person, 384 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,280 and it all happened when I was away. 385 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,880 I still wonder why it happened, 386 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,520 why there was no follow-up. 387 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,400 I find it impossible to fully forget. 388 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,880 When I return there, it's as if 389 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:36,440 the story of the events unfolds again in my mind. 390 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,320 We, by virtue of the powers invested in us, 391 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:06,880 name and declare Mr. Denis Mukwege Mukengere 392 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,480 doctor honoris causa of the Catholic University of Louvain. 393 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,760 University constitutes the final rampart 394 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:28,280 and must remain the place where the younger generation is prepared 395 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,520 to become indignant. 396 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,280 Indignant when certain multinationals, 397 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,280 with the complicity of certain unscrupulous 398 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,560 State and local entities, 399 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,360 enrich themselves while destroying women, 400 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,800 the mainstays of the Congolese economy. 401 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:50,480 Indignant when a peaceful people is forced to move 402 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:55,720 and go into exile, leaving their land to armed predators, 403 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,240 who pillage mining resources, by which I refer to coltan. 404 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,720 Indignant when the electronic devices stained with blood, 405 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,440 which we all have in our pockets, 406 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,360 are sold freely 407 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,640 on the European and world markets, 408 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,880 without it really bothering anyone. 409 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,960 The war has gone on so long 410 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,200 mobsters, rebels, soldiers, 411 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,600 are emptying the Congo of its mineral wealth. 412 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:08,200 I compare the Congo to a jewelry shop without doors, windows or guards. 413 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,200 People come in and take what they want. 414 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,840 I think that 415 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,880 instead of serving us, 416 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:25,600 and giving us a chance to develop harmoniously, 417 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,720 these riches have been the source 418 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,120 of our misfortune and poverty. 419 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,000 We are classed as one of the poorest countries in the world. 420 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,160 It's incomprehensible. 421 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,680 I was working in the operating room. 422 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,680 I did one operation after another, endlessly, 423 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,360 and in the end I realized 424 00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:41,280 that I was operating on some women for the second or third time. 425 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:48,760 The biggest shock came when, for the first time, I operated 426 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,520 on a child born at the hospital, as a result of rape, 427 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,400 who had herself been raped at the age of eight. 428 00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,840 That's when I came to realize 429 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,160 that I am beginning to treat 430 00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:09,960 children born of rape 431 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:16,320 and that I don't want to find myself treating the grandchildren. 432 00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,280 Something had to be done. 433 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,160 I had to speak out to the world, 434 00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:27,320 tell them what is going on in Kivu, 435 00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,600 completely abnormal behavior, 436 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,320 and in Eastern RDC in general. 437 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,120 I couldn't do that from the operating room. 438 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:44,600 I had to go beyond that, beyond the hospital, 439 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,080 to meet people and tell them, 440 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,880 "Have the courage to stop this evil." 441 00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:47,640 May God be glorified. 442 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:57,360 Today, many in our country do not have work. 443 00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,640 In our country, there are no roads, 444 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:02,440 there is no food. 445 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,560 Many children cannot pursue an education, 446 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:10,640 and things happen that break people's hearts. 447 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,520 You know that I have long lived 448 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:19,280 like a prisoner at the hospital. 449 00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,080 "I will take you out of the dust 450 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,440 and sit you down among... 451 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:30,960 princes!” 452 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,240 Do you know where I live? Do you know what it's like? 453 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,160 The district of Panzi. Do you know it? 454 00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,480 There, you cannot keep anything. 455 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:44,120 There is only dust, 456 00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,760 which even gets into your bed. 457 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:51,440 The dust in Panzi is really bad. 458 00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,640 But a month ago, when I was sitting at home, 459 00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:59,040 I got an invitation from Michelle Obama. 460 00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:02,280 "Come here, 461 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:06,160 we want you to come and share our feast." 462 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,320 I went with my wife 463 00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,240 and as we were sitting at the table, 464 00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:18,080 I saw that at this meal, there were only African presidents, 465 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,080 whereas I come from Panzi. 466 00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,760 The Bible, is not just a bunch of stories! 467 00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,920 God will snatch you from the dust 468 00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,680 and sit you among princes and kings. 469 00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:42,560 As I sat among those leaders, 470 00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,160 “Who am I to sit here?” 471 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,200 I only found one answer... 472 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,000 I simply thought that I was just a child, 473 00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,320 I am a child of Jesus. 474 00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:03,400 I am the son of the King of kings! Praise the Lord! 475 00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:13,760 In 1949, 476 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,600 my father came here. 477 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:21,000 He held the service under a tree 478 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:25,520 here in Mahengue, just a few meters from here. 479 00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:28,600 As pastor, he would visit the sick, 480 00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,920 talk to them, sit by their beds. 481 00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:37,840 It was as we visited a sick child one day, 482 00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,880 that I took my decision 483 00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:46,040 "Dad, you are good at what you do, 484 00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:48,080 but I feel it is incomplete. 485 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,880 When I am sick, you give me medicine, 486 00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,080 but you gave none to this child." 487 00:53:55,280 --> 00:54:00,040 He replied that he couldn't give medicine because he was not a doctor. 488 00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:02,880 I had found my path. 489 00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:07,200 "You be the pastor, and pray for the sick, 490 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,440 I want to take care of the medical side." 491 00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,280 My mother was a huge help to us. 492 00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,960 She forged our character. 493 00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:26,040 She's a strong woman. 494 00:54:27,240 --> 00:54:30,680 It was very important to them 495 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,400 that I be able to get an education 496 00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:38,560 and carry their torch onwards. 497 00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,840 When he started his studies, 498 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,720 I prayed to God for him to become a doctor, 499 00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,000 to treat people. 500 00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,080 When I saw a doctor in a white coat, 501 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:52,840 I felt I was seeing an angel. 502 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:06,920 I love you, Mum. 503 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,600 It was the 24th of August, 504 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,080 in 1998, 505 00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,480 on St. Barthelemy's Day. 506 00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:30,400 The Christians were here, both children and adults. 507 00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:32,920 Straight away, 508 00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,760 the Rwandan soldiers 509 00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,640 surrounded the church 510 00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:43,880 and then, armed with axes, 511 00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,080 they started killing people. 512 00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:52,320 They killed 139 people right here in the church. 513 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:57,760 There is still a militia here, in the forest. 514 00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,200 We are afraid of the FDLR. 515 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,720 We aren't free, there is no security. 516 00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:08,760 We live from one day to the next, not knowing what tomorrow will bring. 517 00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:21,040 The nuns were killed behind that first door. 518 00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,880 They were raped, mutilated. 519 00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:30,520 Their bodies were behind that door. - And the priest? 520 00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:34,400 He was killed in the presbytery. 521 00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,680 They used an axe. 522 00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:42,480 We buried him here. - What about the other victims? 523 00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,840 We put the other victims in common graves 524 00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:50,320 over there, where you see the flowers and trees. 525 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,720 And here too. 526 00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,320 Over that way. 527 00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,880 Where the other bushes are. 528 00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:05,440 There's another common grave there for the other remains. 529 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:28,080 Abbot, explain to us why God allows these atrocities. 530 00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:32,440 God... I am a priest, a religious man. 531 00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,440 I don't think God allows these atrocities. 532 00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,200 It is Man's bad heart. 533 00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,480 Man is becoming more and more animalistic. 534 00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,320 Truly... 535 00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,520 I don't know if they still have a heart. 536 00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,760 How come the people who carried out this massacre 537 00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:56,000 haven't been handed over to justice? 538 00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,480 That's the government's job. 539 00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:05,240 We wonder if the government is actively 540 00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:07,880 working on that? 541 00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,400 On finding the perpetrators of these crimes? 542 00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,720 What government, what army, 543 00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,840 names someone who has burned a thousand houses, 544 00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,720 burned hundreds of people, 545 00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,200 captain or colonel? 546 00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:31,480 To reward him? Because of fear? Why? 547 00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,680 It makes you wonder if the government truly exists. 548 00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:39,200 Is there any real justice? 549 00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,640 Without justice, there will be no peace. 550 00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:46,120 You kill 1000 people and become a colonel in the Congo. 551 00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:49,240 What sort of logic is that? 552 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:16,880 Attention! 553 01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,600 Present arms! 554 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,120 The governor of the province of South Kivu! 555 01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:28,320 Excellency, the guard of honor of the National Congolese police, 556 01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:33,160 Mwenga District, Chief Superintendent Jean-Marie Daniel Kayuma. 557 01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:51,360 The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, 558 01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:53,320 the FDLR, 559 01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:57,200 are irreversibly determined 560 01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,400 to contribute to the return of peace 561 01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:05,400 in Eastern RDC. 562 01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:10,360 The FDLR have unilaterally committed 563 01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,360 to put down their weapons 564 01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:16,160 and lead an exclusively political fight. 565 01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:21,440 Today, the FDLR 566 01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:25,440 83 weapons, including 8 heavy weapons, 567 01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,880 and 83 disarmed fighters, 568 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:33,200 as long as the support and security conditions for them 569 01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:37,520 and all the Rwandan civilian refugees 570 01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:39,880 in the DRC, are guaranteed. 571 01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:43,680 Long live peace in the Great Lakes Region. 572 01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:50,000 This voluntary disarmament operation, 573 01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:54,440 takes place 20 years after the entry 574 01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:56,960 of the Rwandan nationals 575 01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,720 into the DRC, formerly Zaire. 576 01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:07,360 We entreat them to encourage others hiding in the bush 577 01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,400 to do as they have done today, 578 01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:14,280 and leave the forests and mountains of the DRC. 579 01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:44,480 We will begin our ceremony with the national anthem. 580 01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:13,360 The international community would like our authorization to fight them. 581 01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:17,120 I'm afraid, because when I see the population here, 582 01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,840 I can't tell the difference between them and us. 583 01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:24,480 So how would they tell them apart in a war? 584 01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,760 We became the world capital of rape because of this war. 585 01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:33,280 I think it's time to say, Basta! 586 01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:39,240 Enough, we're tired. We want peace and development 587 01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,440 and put an end to talk of rape and displaced populations. 588 01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,480 And leave us to live in peace. 589 01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,880 The FDLR, who committed massacres in Kaniola, 590 01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:58,560 in Ninga, in Kalonge, 591 01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,000 in Buniakiri. 592 01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:05,760 There are women who were abducted as sexual slaves, 593 01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:10,880 who can identify the men who abducted them 594 01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:12,440 and took them into the forest. 595 01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:16,200 If those people are not accountable, there is no international justice. 596 01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,680 If Congolese justice isn't able to do it, 597 01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,880 I consider that international justice 598 01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,080 must request that those people answer 599 01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,920 for these crimes against humanity, or these war crimes, 600 01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,240 which they committed while in the Congolese forest. 601 01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:34,200 If this operation doesn't work, 602 01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:38,040 it is to the advantage of all those brutally exploiting the Eastern Congo 603 01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:43,240 because we know that peace and tranquility in Eastern Congo 604 01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:45,720 requires the return of the rule of law. 605 01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:49,080 Rule of law would put a stop to the vultures 606 01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:53,400 who are currently butchering the Congo. 607 01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:00,680 Hello, girls. - Hello. 608 01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:04,360 Please tell me your name, where you are from, 609 01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:08,000 why you are here, 610 01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,600 and what you hope to get here. 611 01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,240 I came here 612 01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:18,120 because I was rejected, despised. 613 01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:21,960 But I see there are many of us. 614 01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:25,240 We have come here to get help, 615 01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:28,960 to be transformed, because we are despised. 616 01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:33,360 Speak a little more openly. I feel that you are full of emotion. 617 01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:37,120 Shatter the silence. Speak out about how you feel. 618 01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:40,400 When you have been sexually abused, 619 01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:44,280 you have no more self-esteem, 620 01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:47,120 but here, there are many of us here. 621 01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:49,880 When you leave here, 622 01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,360 we want you to have a swing to your step. 623 01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,080 You know what that means? 624 01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,280 It means that you are beautiful, elegant. 625 01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:03,400 They wanted to destroy you. But when you leave here, 626 01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:07,440 they'll see that you are stronger than them. 627 01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:11,080 There were rebels at our place, 628 01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:13,960 boys from the neighborhood who had become rebels. 629 01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:17,319 I passed by these boys. They had been pillaging. 630 01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,200 They caught me and raped me. 631 01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:27,120 When I told my mother that I had been raped, 632 01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:32,920 "It happened because you asked for it." 633 01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,000 She got angry and threw me out. 634 01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,920 Then I was thrown out of school. 635 01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:44,040 I had a child, who is now two years old. 636 01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:52,640 Don't cry, sister. 637 01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:57,880 It will be alright. 638 01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:06,319 Thank you. 639 01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,880 I lived with my mother. 640 01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:22,840 When my mother died, 641 01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:26,640 there was no one left to protect me. 642 01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:29,279 I wasn't wanted at home anymore. 643 01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:32,960 When I asked my father for something, he refused. 644 01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:37,560 He threw me out of the house. The neighbors took me in. 645 01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,399 I spent all my days crying. 646 01:09:46,319 --> 01:09:48,479 It's over now. 647 01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:53,240 Don't worry. 648 01:09:58,360 --> 01:09:59,880 We love you. 649 01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:03,680 Even if others hate you, we love you. 650 01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:08,280 Let's sing something. 651 01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:12,040 Come on, let's stand up. 652 01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,000 Copy what I do. 653 01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:32,880 You think I'm crazy, don't you? 654 01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:35,080 No! 655 01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,200 - Am I out of my mind? - No! 656 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,480 Why don't you do as I do? 657 01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:41,680 Copy me, do it after me. 658 01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:32,560 There is hurt, deep inside you, 659 01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:37,560 that you do not accept. 660 01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:42,080 If you stay here, 661 01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:47,760 we will give you back your humanity 662 01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:51,360 and draw out this hurt that is blocking you, 663 01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:55,040 so you can start a new life. 664 01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:00,520 What is it? What's wrong? 665 01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:06,400 Your head is hurting? How come? 666 01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:09,000 I remembered what happened. 667 01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:10,520 You remembered? 668 01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,400 You remembered what happened. How long ago? 669 01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:21,840 I have lost many things. 670 01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:26,560 Five years ago. 671 01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,120 But you have never forgotten. 672 01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:36,440 That's precisely why you are here. 673 01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:39,160 We will help you forget. 674 01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:41,400 We will support you. 675 01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:47,680 I'm not sure that what you say is right. 676 01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:51,040 Why would you not get back what you have lost? 677 01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:01,040 Do you think that when a person has had a problem, 678 01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:04,600 they will never get back what they have lost? 679 01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:07,200 Do you believe that? - Yes. 680 01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:08,840 It's not true! 681 01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:12,400 Life can take a bad turn, 682 01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:14,720 and when you're on the ground, 683 01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:18,680 you think you'll never again have that which you've lost. 684 01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:21,360 But life... 685 01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:23,640 What have you lost? 686 01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:30,920 A lot? 687 01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:32,480 My reputation. 688 01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:35,920 - Your reputation? - Yes. 689 01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:39,800 - What else? - My education. 690 01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,600 My virginity. - Yes. 691 01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:45,360 What else? 692 01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:53,400 Girls, do you think she will never retrieve 693 01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:55,840 the things she's just talked about? 694 01:13:57,040 --> 01:13:58,120 She can. 695 01:13:58,480 --> 01:14:02,520 Sisters, you didn't want what happened to you. 696 01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:06,400 To think that virginity 697 01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:09,080 is the most important thing in life, 698 01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:12,200 let me tell you, that is not true. 699 01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:15,840 The true virginity is that which you have... 700 01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:19,120 in your heart. 701 01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:20,600 Isn't that true? 702 01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,600 Do you believe me? - Yes. 703 01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:27,520 To cry is not shameful. 704 01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:30,200 It is the pain, the suffering inside. 705 01:14:30,480 --> 01:14:33,400 If you feel anger that makes you cry, 706 01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:35,400 you must cry. 707 01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:37,440 If you must speak, speak. 708 01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:39,880 If you want to shout, shout. 709 01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:43,360 At some point, you will feel unburdened, 710 01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,960 and that all that suffering will come out. 711 01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:47,960 During your stay here, 712 01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:51,160 take advantage of this time to discover 713 01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,840 that you are a complete woman, whole. 714 01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:55,960 And if you have been raped, 715 01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:58,840 nothing has been taken away from your femininity. 716 01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:00,520 Let the tears 717 01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:03,720 that you shed now be your last! 718 01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:28,160 I could not read or write. 719 01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,080 I learned to read A, E, I, O, U. 720 01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,280 I'm starting to feel loved. 721 01:15:34,480 --> 01:15:39,400 I am preparing for my future life. After my secondary education, 722 01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:42,360 I will study medicine 723 01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:46,520 so that I too can take care of women 724 01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:52,200 who have suffered like I have. 725 01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:56,360 I cannot abandon these women, 726 01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,680 for I have had the same operations. 727 01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:02,040 If I had been neglected, 728 01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:04,760 I would not be what I am today. 729 01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:45,720 I met Jeanne here. 730 01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:49,200 She welcomed me as if I was her little sister. 731 01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:53,800 I sensed that we would get on. 732 01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:58,200 We did our shopping together. 733 01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:01,760 We share a single pot of beauty lotion. 734 01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:05,000 Even though she's light-skinned and I'm dark! 735 01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:10,440 I wanted to be her friend because she supported me, 736 01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:12,680 taught me to move forward. 737 01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:15,360 We shared all the suffering. 738 01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:18,960 We said that we could not leave 739 01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:22,880 because we no longer have a home, or a family. 740 01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:28,320 Alphonsine has no more parents, her relatives are all dead. 741 01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:31,160 We have nowhere to go. 742 01:17:31,480 --> 01:17:34,080 We will stay here 743 01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:38,520 until the end of all our operations. 744 01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:42,360 Could I one day be a housewife? 745 01:17:42,480 --> 01:17:45,280 I will never again be able to be penetrated by a man 746 01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:47,360 and have a child. 747 01:17:47,480 --> 01:17:50,760 But the doctor practiced 748 01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:54,760 all of his skills on me, he gave them to me. 749 01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:57,280 How can I not love him? 750 01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:02,080 And I didn't even pay a single Congolese franc. 751 01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:25,040 Toilet... 752 01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:28,400 Kitchen... 753 01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:35,480 When I was in hospital and we were taught 754 01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:42,040 how to weave baskets, sew, make carpets, 755 01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:49,560 little by little, I saved money. It was a big help to me. 756 01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:54,040 I managed to save 300 dollars. 757 01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:58,040 I showed it to Dr. Mukwege. 758 01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:01,520 "I now have a small sum of money. 759 01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:05,520 I'd like to have a little plot of land.” 760 01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:09,520 - "Really?" - "Yes, really." 761 01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,080 So the doctor gave me a little extra money. 762 01:19:13,480 --> 01:19:18,000 Now I have to put in doors, paint the house, plaster the walls, 763 01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:21,440 and perhaps get electricity put in, 764 01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:23,920 so I feel good, 765 01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:27,320 like in Dr. Mukwege's office, 766 01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:31,160 like in the City of Joy, where it's really nice. 767 01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:34,280 That's my project. 768 01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:40,240 Today, my father is Dr. Mukwege, 769 01:19:40,440 --> 01:19:43,520 because he's the one who repaired my life. 770 01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:47,360 He saved my life 771 01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:53,640 and made me the way I am today. 772 01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:58,520 I saw that I was a human being like any other, 773 01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:02,440 and that despite these problems, it wasn't the end of the world. 774 01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:07,240 As long as you're alive, you can still do lots of things 775 01:20:07,440 --> 01:20:09,520 here on earth. 776 01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:15,440 - Who opened the door? - I don't know. 777 01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:19,560 - Afterwards, you went back inside alone? - Yes. 778 01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:22,760 Did you tell Dad? Was Mummy there? 779 01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,840 - No. - Mummy wasn't there? 780 01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:29,360 Don't you have a mummy? - Yes... 781 01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:31,080 You have a mummy? 782 01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:35,320 Mummy wasn't there at night? - Mummy? No... 783 01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:36,760 - She wasn't there? - No. 784 01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:38,600 Poor thing. 785 01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:41,280 This is what she told me. 786 01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:45,360 When she was abducted, it was night-time, she was sleeping. 787 01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:49,440 Someone suddenly seized her from her bed. 788 01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:55,400 They're alone in the family, their mother is not at home. 789 01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:58,720 The father was already asleep, in another room. 790 01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:00,120 That's how they took her. 791 01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:04,320 I asked her if she'd seen him. She said it was too dark. 792 01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:07,280 She didn't know where he took her. 793 01:22:07,480 --> 01:22:10,880 "I was in great pain. It was a man." 794 01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:14,560 We'll take care of you, OK? 795 01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:24,000 We must put a stop to these witch doctors. 796 01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:25,560 That's the first thing. 797 01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:28,120 They're the ones 798 01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:32,520 "If you sleep with a little girl, see the breasts of a virgin, 799 01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:33,880 you will be rich!" 800 01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:37,720 We must get to all the witch doctors. 801 01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:39,600 We know who they are. 802 01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:54,360 Here we can see 803 01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:58,040 a wound resulting from the rape. 804 01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:03,640 There is a tear in the recto-vaginal septum. 805 01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:10,080 There's no separation between the anus and the vagina? 806 01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:14,480 We can't even get in there. - But how will you reconstruct that? 807 01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:18,280 I can reconstruct it, but the challenge 808 01:23:18,480 --> 01:23:21,520 is to make the vagina permeable. 809 01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:25,160 You've never seen this before? It's not an isolated case. 810 01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:29,080 There are four other little girls waiting 811 01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:34,960 for the same type of operation. - In fact, this is the 13th case. 812 01:23:35,520 --> 01:23:39,880 There have been 3 deaths, including a child of 9 months, 813 01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:42,960 a 2-year old and a 4-year old. 814 01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:45,680 Last year. 815 01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:49,400 - And now, this is...? - The 13th case. 816 01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:54,640 The mother believes that her daughter was raped 817 01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:57,840 in order to steal her uterus. 818 01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:01,920 "Did they do this for no reason?" 819 01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:04,880 She doesn't believe it is a sexual act, 820 01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:08,040 she thinks there must be 821 01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:14,320 some sort of financial incentive, or organ trafficking, etc. 822 01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:17,920 She imagines that because this act is incomprehensible. 823 01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:20,560 How could anyone do something like this? 824 01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:22,680 This girl's mother 825 01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:26,440 believes they have taken an organ because she doesn't understand 826 01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,840 how anyone can do something so atrocious to her kid? 827 01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:34,840 How will she go about lodging a complaint? 828 01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:39,320 I don't understand how these women 829 01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:43,840 can cope with all the procedures involved in filing a complaint. 830 01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:45,600 Have you seen what it entails? 831 01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:47,520 What I think 832 01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:53,280 is that the men must face their responsibilities. 833 01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:56,480 They won't be killed, but... 834 01:24:57,920 --> 01:24:59,600 Problem solved! 835 01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:02,880 You say that because you're angry. 836 01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:07,240 No. I think that this little girl, 837 01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:13,520 with this fibrosis, at the age of 20, won't be able to have sex. 838 01:25:14,040 --> 01:25:17,920 Her life has been ruined. - You're right. 839 01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:20,720 We don't know how many little girls 840 01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:23,600 this man will destroy before he's caught. 841 01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:28,120 Nothing will change 842 01:25:29,480 --> 01:25:32,160 if there is no popular mobilization. 843 01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:57,600 - What is that? - That's what I was wondering. 844 01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:03,000 What are those spots? That's what I wonder. 845 01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:06,040 Not just one or two, lots of them. 846 01:26:08,440 --> 01:26:11,120 And why do they appear like that? 847 01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:14,960 So it perforated and entered the belly? 848 01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:16,880 Yes, that's exactly right. 849 01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:22,840 I think that those must be lesions. 850 01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:29,440 It's unimaginable. 851 01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:37,480 You know what this means? 852 01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:41,600 It means... Well, one hypothesis, 853 01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:45,920 is that they penetrated her, 854 01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:52,040 there was feces, because they split the septum, 855 01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:56,280 and that they then started over again. 856 01:26:56,880 --> 01:27:00,480 They had feces on their penis, 857 01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:02,560 and put it back inside her. 858 01:27:05,240 --> 01:27:06,680 Poor girl! 859 01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:19,400 Dear friends, 860 01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:23,920 if we stop suffering for others, 861 01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,280 we stop being human as well. 862 01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:30,880 I think that for this little girl, all men should mobilize. 863 01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:34,200 It's all we can do. - We all agree. 864 01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:38,720 Me too. What should we do now? 865 01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:44,000 This won't do, it just won't do. 866 01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:49,600 It won't do. 867 01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:55,680 It's insane, completely insane. 868 01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:35,240 Kalehe District Court 869 01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:46,000 Weapons at the ready! 870 01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:49,560 At ease! 871 01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:57,160 Private Bazire, Jean-Claude, 872 01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:00,200 charged with rape. - Bazire Jean-Claude. 873 01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:01,920 Present, Commander. 874 01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:05,360 ...alias Tango Tango. 875 01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:06,840 Present. 876 01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:08,960 Charged with rape. 877 01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:14,720 ...Daniel. - Present. 878 01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:17,360 Charged with rape. 879 01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:21,600 At ease. Remove your beret. 880 01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:29,520 Isolate the victim to protect her and make her feel safe. 881 01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:34,960 You people in uniform must not traumatize the little girl. 882 01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:40,680 I feel that when a minor appears here... 883 01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:44,040 I'm the oldest 'papa' here, in my uniform, 884 01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:46,680 with my glasses, see...? 885 01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:51,680 She was abused by a man in uniform 886 01:29:51,880 --> 01:29:55,760 and now she sees people who look just like him. 887 01:29:56,720 --> 01:29:58,160 It's stressful. 888 01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:07,040 Pay attention, we'll remind him why the first judge convicted him. 889 01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:12,040 "The children are used to coming to my place for goodies. 890 01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:16,440 They call me the "good one". 891 01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:20,440 The "good guy", you gave them goodies. You took them to your house 892 01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:22,240 to give them sweets. 893 01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:27,240 Some of them stated that they found you 894 01:30:27,440 --> 01:30:30,720 with the girl, completely naked, in your room. 895 01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:34,480 They said they heard the girl's cries. 896 01:30:35,360 --> 01:30:38,080 You admitted to asking for forgiveness, 897 01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:43,280 confessing that you had been tempted by Satan. 898 01:30:43,880 --> 01:30:45,880 Do you admit this? 899 01:30:46,440 --> 01:30:49,520 In the name of God, I didn't do it! 900 01:30:49,840 --> 01:30:53,040 He swears before God that he didn't do this. 901 01:30:54,440 --> 01:30:56,320 You stand here before men. 902 01:30:57,400 --> 01:31:02,200 Before God and man, when one asks forgiveness, 903 01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:05,520 one asks God's forgiveness and that of men. 904 01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:09,280 But I did not commit this act. 905 01:31:09,480 --> 01:31:11,840 He did nothing but he asks before God 906 01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:15,400 and the people of God that we may leave. 907 01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:20,240 As the victim is in the corridor and is following the debate, 908 01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:23,240 may she give her reaction to the court? 909 01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:28,960 The victim has followed and is truly at ease? 910 01:31:29,480 --> 01:31:31,040 We greet the victim. 911 01:31:31,480 --> 01:31:34,880 How do you feel? - I feel good. 912 01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:43,880 Does she remember the day when someone hurt her body? 913 01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:47,320 Does she remember? - Yes. 914 01:31:48,000 --> 01:31:49,720 How did it happen? 915 01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:54,920 I was playing with my friends. 916 01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:58,880 He told me to go and buy myself some sweeties. 917 01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:11,920 He took me back to his house, he undressed me in the living room, 918 01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:14,720 and made me go upstairs. 919 01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:19,120 When we got to his room, he got undressed 920 01:32:19,480 --> 01:32:22,920 and put his penis in my mouth. 921 01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:31,840 Speaking in front 922 01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:35,960 "He put his penis in my mouth." 923 01:32:36,160 --> 01:32:40,600 "He put his "dendeo" - I don't know if it's masculine or feminine - 924 01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:42,320 in my mouth." 925 01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:44,680 Yet they say the child was shouting out. 926 01:32:45,120 --> 01:32:48,520 If the child was shouting, where was the penis? 927 01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:51,880 In her mouth? How did she shout? Through her ears? 928 01:32:52,400 --> 01:32:54,280 How did she make herself heard? 929 01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:59,440 Her voice was hard to hear through the megaphone just now! 930 01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:02,560 Are we already called into the good? 931 01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:06,360 No, expressions that rhyme 932 01:33:06,720 --> 01:33:09,960 should not lead us astray. "Good guy, goodies..." 933 01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:14,360 If we were talking about fritters, perhaps things would be different. 934 01:33:14,840 --> 01:33:16,200 Come back. 935 01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:21,400 Your final word? 936 01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:25,120 I thank you 937 01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:31,320 and place my fate in the hands of God. 938 01:33:34,560 --> 01:33:37,360 Let us hope the Almighty will be present. 939 01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:47,080 In 1998, with the DRC war, 940 01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:51,840 many more crimes were committed in the Congo. 941 01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:53,680 Atrocious crimes! 942 01:33:54,120 --> 01:33:56,400 Very often, when the sentences are handed down, 943 01:33:56,520 --> 01:34:00,560 it is ordinary citizens or lowly soldiers who are convicted. 944 01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:04,720 It's difficult to catch the officers, the big fish. 945 01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:07,720 We want justice to be done. 946 01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:13,400 For there to be no more impunity, justice must be done. 947 01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:17,640 All those who have committed crimes over the past 20 years must be tried! 948 01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:20,040 - Zainda Monkuru. - Colonel! 949 01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:21,560 Come to the bar. 950 01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:26,280 At ease. Remove your beret. 951 01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:35,040 The court confirms the crime of rape for the accused 952 01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:39,960 and sentences him to 7 years in prison. 953 01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:44,400 Court police, you may take the offender. 954 01:34:49,160 --> 01:34:52,000 The court calls case LPA0232. 955 01:34:55,720 --> 01:34:59,280 The court condemns him to the strongest penal sentence 956 01:34:59,480 --> 01:35:03,000 for attempted rape with violence. 957 01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:06,560 The court confirms his detention. 958 01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:20,080 Court police, you may take the offender. 959 01:35:24,120 --> 01:35:26,600 The accused deserve their sentences, 960 01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:28,640 prison is there to re-educate them. 961 01:35:28,760 --> 01:35:32,360 At the end of this hearing, each of them must have learned 962 01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:35,080 about rape and sexual violence, 963 01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:37,920 and what happens to those who commit them. 964 01:35:38,840 --> 01:35:43,160 The victims have understood that justice has prevailed. 965 01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:47,080 Thank you and goodbye. 966 01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:55,880 Weapons at the ready! 967 01:35:57,720 --> 01:35:59,840 At ease. - Thank you. 968 01:36:02,680 --> 01:36:05,200 What have we done to be judged here? 969 01:36:06,840 --> 01:36:09,880 They make us come here over and over and then convict us. 970 01:36:11,240 --> 01:36:14,080 Why are we treated like animals? 971 01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:20,520 You must continue to act in a disciplined manner. 972 01:36:20,640 --> 01:36:24,160 You aren't my chief. Don't talk to me like that! 973 01:36:24,440 --> 01:36:27,120 Calm down, we'll be leaving soon. 974 01:36:29,400 --> 01:36:32,600 We don't give a damn about this conviction! 975 01:37:49,360 --> 01:37:52,080 Those who rape are our dads, 976 01:37:52,280 --> 01:37:56,040 they are our brothers, policemen, soldiers. 977 01:37:56,320 --> 01:38:00,120 You men make us suffer. 978 01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:03,040 You make us suffer! 979 01:38:03,320 --> 01:38:09,160 You inflict suffering on women and your own children. 980 01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:12,800 I don't know what sort of future you want. 981 01:38:13,400 --> 01:38:15,880 The children are our future! 982 01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:21,040 When you rape children of 3, children of 2 months, 983 01:38:21,320 --> 01:38:23,240 do you have no mercy? 984 01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:26,400 Do you have no mercy? 985 01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:29,680 Today, we can speak of massacre. 986 01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:33,880 It is no longer rape, it is the massacre of our children. 987 01:38:34,160 --> 01:38:36,320 If the men of Kavumu 988 01:38:36,440 --> 01:38:40,880 don't mobilize to combat these rapes, 989 01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:43,600 dearly beloved men, 990 01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:46,320 you will feel the solidarity of women. 991 01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:49,720 The day they refuse to let you in their bed, 992 01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:51,760 you will feel the anger 993 01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:55,600 of the women of Kavumu! 994 01:38:56,920 --> 01:38:58,200 Thank you. 995 01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:00,880 You must denounce. 996 01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:05,640 You must come and complain. 997 01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:11,000 If you don't lodge a complaint, 998 01:39:11,200 --> 01:39:13,520 it is difficult for me press charges. 999 01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:18,280 When the charges are against an unknown person, 1000 01:39:18,480 --> 01:39:23,120 it makes the investigation much more difficult. 1001 01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:27,680 The woman's declaration to the police is not enough. 1002 01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:30,880 That's how the law works. 1003 01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:43,000 What discourages us is that when we denounce, 1004 01:39:43,560 --> 01:39:47,440 we are considered more of a criminal than he who committed the rape. 1005 01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:53,280 The prosecutor says that no one denounces. 1006 01:39:53,480 --> 01:39:55,200 How can we denounce 1007 01:39:55,440 --> 01:39:58,280 to this man who is nicknamed "Mr. 100 dollars"? 1008 01:40:03,280 --> 01:40:06,000 We must try to understand one another. 1009 01:40:06,320 --> 01:40:08,400 There's no point in clapping, 1010 01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:12,280 because when I get arrested, you will all flee. 1011 01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:15,560 You don't dare to denounce, because if you do, 1012 01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:17,560 it is you who are arrested, 1013 01:40:17,680 --> 01:40:20,040 while the perpetrator is set free. 1014 01:40:22,440 --> 01:40:25,640 Dr. Mukwege, forgive us, 1015 01:40:26,480 --> 01:40:30,800 for we are no longer afraid of having our head cut off. 1016 01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:33,360 But those who made an attempt on your life, 1017 01:40:33,480 --> 01:40:35,120 have they been arrested? 1018 01:40:35,400 --> 01:40:38,320 Whatever crime you commit in this country, 1019 01:40:38,440 --> 01:40:41,480 if you hand over 100 dollars, you are set free. 1020 01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:46,000 I will end here, for I know that tomorrow I will be arrested. 1021 01:40:57,800 --> 01:41:01,280 Despite my anger and sadness, I address the women. 1022 01:41:01,960 --> 01:41:03,680 We must mobilize! 1023 01:41:03,880 --> 01:41:07,040 God will help us catch all the savages 1024 01:41:07,480 --> 01:41:09,280 who commit these crimes. 1025 01:41:09,480 --> 01:41:12,680 When we get our hands on them, 1026 01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:16,880 we will not take them to the police. 1027 01:41:17,080 --> 01:41:19,160 We will mutilate them ourselves! 1028 01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:24,360 We will make them endure what they did to our children! 1029 01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:31,160 You must not confuse holding a public discussion 1030 01:41:31,360 --> 01:41:34,640 and bringing someone before the bar. 1031 01:41:37,440 --> 01:41:40,480 You say the police do nothing, 1032 01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:44,240 the army does nothing, the prosecutor does nothing, 1033 01:41:44,440 --> 01:41:46,000 the State does nothing, 1034 01:41:46,200 --> 01:41:48,080 the group chief does nothing. 1035 01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:52,520 that you do nothing either! 1036 01:41:56,720 --> 01:42:00,120 Some here claim that the police do nothing. 1037 01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:04,000 Yes, it may be that the police do nothing. 1038 01:42:04,120 --> 01:42:05,720 "The prosecutor does nothing." 1039 01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:08,320 Yes, it may be that the prosecutor does nothing 1040 01:42:08,440 --> 01:42:11,480 because when you bring someone before the prosecutor, 1041 01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:14,880 you want justice to be rendered immediately. 1042 01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:22,680 Where are the men of Kavumu? 1043 01:42:23,240 --> 01:42:24,640 Where is the community? 1044 01:42:24,960 --> 01:42:30,000 We wonder where the Congolese men are. 1045 01:42:30,840 --> 01:42:33,040 For many years, 1046 01:42:33,160 --> 01:42:35,360 our mothers have been raped, 1047 01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:38,160 our sisters have been raped, 1048 01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:42,120 but where were we, the men? 1049 01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:46,040 When it happened, where were we? 1050 01:42:46,640 --> 01:42:50,360 Those who committed these acts have noted the men's silence. 1051 01:42:50,640 --> 01:42:54,680 Now they rape children under the age of five. 1052 01:42:55,200 --> 01:42:59,760 We doctors are in tears as we operate on these children. 1053 01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:02,640 Two weeks ago, 1054 01:43:04,440 --> 01:43:08,360 I even operated on a baby of two months. 1055 01:43:11,480 --> 01:43:16,120 Most of these little girls will never become women. 1056 01:43:16,680 --> 01:43:19,960 Each one of us has the responsibility 1057 01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:23,600 to protect the community. 1058 01:43:24,000 --> 01:43:27,320 I honestly believe that if we men of Kavumu 1059 01:43:27,560 --> 01:43:29,080 stand together 1060 01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:32,760 "From now on, 1061 01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:35,400 this won't happen again", it will stop! 1062 01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:37,200 We will continue to denounce 1063 01:43:37,320 --> 01:43:39,000 and I'm sure it will stop. 1064 01:43:39,200 --> 01:43:40,520 Thank you. 1065 01:43:43,120 --> 01:43:44,880 Where are the men? 1066 01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,120 Are the men present? 1067 01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:50,840 May the men rise and make the V sign, 1068 01:43:51,080 --> 01:43:53,040 which is the sign of the V-men. - Victory! 1069 01:43:53,400 --> 01:43:56,120 May they rise and make the victory sign. 1070 01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:06,680 Victory! 1071 01:44:32,040 --> 01:44:33,840 Last week, 1072 01:44:34,320 --> 01:44:38,400 over 50 people were massacred with machetes. 1073 01:44:39,720 --> 01:44:42,040 In just one and a half months, 1074 01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:46,400 200 people have been savagely murdered. 1075 01:44:50,920 --> 01:44:54,200 The bellies of pregnant women are ripped open 1076 01:44:55,320 --> 01:44:57,440 and their babies are mutilated. 1077 01:45:01,480 --> 01:45:05,960 Like any human being, I long not to have to evoke 1078 01:45:06,600 --> 01:45:10,880 these odious crimes to which my fellow beings fall victim. 1079 01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:14,760 We have taken the time and the energy 1080 01:45:15,040 --> 01:45:17,720 to repair the consequences of the violence. 1081 01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:21,120 It is time to deal with the causes! 1082 01:45:51,120 --> 01:45:54,760 How can I remain silent when, for over 15 years, 1083 01:45:55,600 --> 01:45:58,920 we see things that even we surgeons 1084 01:45:59,560 --> 01:46:02,560 cannot get used to seeing? 1085 01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:05,520 How can I remain silent, 1086 01:46:05,640 --> 01:46:08,320 when we know that these crimes against humanity 1087 01:46:08,840 --> 01:46:13,760 are planned with a lowly economic motive? 1088 01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:18,840 I identify every woman raped 1089 01:46:20,360 --> 01:46:21,600 with my wife, 1090 01:46:22,920 --> 01:46:26,960 I identify every mother raped with my own mother, 1091 01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:31,880 and every child raped with my own children. 1092 01:46:32,880 --> 01:46:34,920 How can we remain silent? 1093 01:46:35,600 --> 01:46:37,280 Fellow countrymen, 1094 01:46:37,480 --> 01:46:40,440 the Sakharov Prize that we receive from the European Parliament 1095 01:46:40,840 --> 01:46:42,360 is yours 1096 01:46:42,760 --> 01:46:46,320 and it is the symbol of the freedom of thought, 1097 01:46:46,720 --> 01:46:50,040 a right that we have had withdrawn from us, 1098 01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:54,240 a right which, after the terror and oppression, 1099 01:46:54,440 --> 01:46:57,560 we sometimes seem to have given up on. 1100 01:46:57,840 --> 01:47:02,600 In the rest of the world, people would rise in indignation. 1101 01:47:03,560 --> 01:47:06,560 But in the Congolese society that is losing its bearings, 1102 01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:09,440 mass atrocities are reported in the news 1103 01:47:09,760 --> 01:47:11,360 like simple news items. 1104 01:47:11,600 --> 01:47:15,160 The law of the warlords dominates 1105 01:47:15,360 --> 01:47:17,040 in the absence of the rule of law. 1106 01:47:17,520 --> 01:47:20,120 Our country is sick. 1107 01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:24,040 But together, with our friends around the world, 1108 01:47:24,480 --> 01:47:28,080 we can and we will, cure it. 1109 01:47:28,440 --> 01:47:29,480 Thank you. 1110 01:48:15,320 --> 01:48:17,720 When I was doctor in Lemera, every fortnight, 1111 01:48:17,840 --> 01:48:20,480 I travelled this road, to visit my family. 1112 01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:24,080 I would often stand here for 30 minutes, 1113 01:48:24,280 --> 01:48:26,160 sitting on this stone. 1114 01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:29,600 I would look at the horizon 1115 01:48:29,720 --> 01:48:32,840 and simply admire the beauty of nature. 1116 01:48:45,400 --> 01:48:50,000 This place is the meeting 1117 01:48:50,240 --> 01:48:53,760 Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo. 1118 01:48:54,480 --> 01:48:56,600 I felt it was such a waste. 1119 01:48:56,720 --> 01:48:59,720 It is clear that these populations 1120 01:49:00,040 --> 01:49:03,920 need leaders who understand that the only solution 1121 01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:06,560 is to tolerate one another, live together. 1122 01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:11,240 I think it's a place where people could 1123 01:49:11,600 --> 01:49:14,560 finally re-create themselves, 1124 01:49:14,760 --> 01:49:19,640 in nature, with these mountains and hills 1125 01:49:19,880 --> 01:49:21,880 that are so beautiful. 1126 01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:25,160 We can see the Ruzizi River 1127 01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:28,080 and further off, the plains of the Ruzizi River. 1128 01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:34,400 Will we ever be able to live in peace 1129 01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:38,200 in this vast, rich land? 1130 01:49:38,520 --> 01:49:40,320 A magnificent land.