"You know what that means, Jessica Kamanzi? You know how they rape women?"
Yes, I had seen it. Twenty or thirty guys on a bench. Some of them old enough to know better. A woman, sometimes just a frail child, is stretched out against a wall, legs spread, totally unconscious. These good family men aren't into violence. It had chilled my blood to see them chichatting right at the moment when a whole life was coming apart under their very eyes. And among the rapists there are almost always, by design, some who have AIDS.
"I know how they do it," I said.
"When they've finished, they pour acid into your vagina or stick in pieces of broken bottle or pieces of metal."
As I prepare to leave for Rwanda, it becomes overwhelming: what can I possibly do in three weeks to make life any easier for these survivors? What can the world do? And how do we stop what we know is happening right now in the Sudan?
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