Running For Their Lives
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The heart of Africa is shattered into a million pieces. A million people a year have died in the last five years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, more deaths than in Iraq and Afghanistan together. There is a dark, dirty secret in Congo, home to the deadliest conflict since World War II. Women and children ages 3 to 73 are the targets of this mind-numbing war, and rape is the weapon, giving Congo the title of rape capital of the world.
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Client: Colorado View Magazine
Date: Summer, 2010
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Running for Their Lives Article
The genocide that wiped out nearly a million lives in Rwanda is literally bleeding into Congo.The Congolese Army is helpless against the rebels fighting over control of gold, diamonds, copper, tin, uranium and 80 percent of the world’s coltan, a mineral needed to make our cell phones, computers and PlayStations work.
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