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"They Said If My Parents Didn't Give Them Money They Would Rape Me"

It was difficult to decide what to clip from last night's television premiere of the film The Greatest Silence, which documents the years-long epidemic of rape in the Congo. There were the dozens of adult victims...the rapists themselves...and of course, filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, who, according to at least one female critic, shouldn't have inserted her own experiences into her cinematic story. (Whatever, lady.) In the end, we decided to focus on the following: Maj. Honorine Mungole, a one-woman SVU unit who investigates the despicable crimes; 12-year-old Safi — who was raped last year after soldiers entered her home to loot it; and Mathilde, 4, a large-eyed moppet who was assaulted by a man in her village. (A full HBO screening schedule for the film can be found here.)
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12:00 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Anna
5,397 views, 80 comments

Latest by Haystacks: When I see things like this I don't want to donate money, I want to donate a friggin plane ticket. The Congo, Rwanda and Afghanistan aren't that big. Lets import them all here and give them their own communes more »

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Critics Find The Greatest Silence "Chilling" But "Frustrating"

In 2006, filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson went to the war-torn Congo on her own nickel to make a documentary about rape in the republic formerly known as Zaire. Her film, The Greatest Silence, which premieres tonight on HBO at 10pm, includes interviews with some of the estimated 250,000 women and girls who have been raped by soldiers over the past decade — as well as some of the rapists themselves — and the picture she paints is beyond grim. (Many women have been raped and injured to the point of lifelong incontinence, their vaginas rammed with sticks and other weapons until their uteri rupture). And though Jackson's personal history also plays a role in the film — she was raped by three men in 1976 — some reviewers find the inclusion of her own tragedy an intrustion. "She is motivated not simply by her reportorial instincts," notes NY Times reviewer Ginia Bellafante, "but also by her unfortunate wish to relate." More critical assessments of The Greatest Silence, after the jump. More »

2:30 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Jessica
5,016 views, 152 comments

Latest by n/a: @J.D.Regent: Unfortunately, there are very few studies on the psychology of sexual offenders, like rapists, because it is very difficult to get funding and permission to do those studies on the prison population in the U.S. (there are some studies from more »