FILM SCREENING - "The Greatest Silence"

06/12/2008 - 18:00
06/12/2008 - 21:00
Etc/GMT-4

YOU ARE INVITED to view this films shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Schomburg Research Library
135th and Lenox Avenue
Film begins at 6:00 PM

In the American Negro Theatre

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Since 1998 a brutal war has ravaged the Congo, killing over 4 million people and resulting in tens of thousands of women and girls being raped and mutilated by soldiers from neighboring militias and the Congolese army.

This is Hi-Tech genocide. The Congo is rich in natural resources, diamonds, gold, plutonium and iron, etc. Eighty percent of the world’s coltan is in the Congo which is used in cell phones, laptops and other high-tech products. The war is being fought by armed militias sponsored by multinational corporations and foreign countries, including the U.S., They want to control the land and exploit these natural, precious resources. While women are being raped as a weapon of war, Congolese men are either killed or forced to join the conflict.

The documentary, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, records the harrowing story of women survivors and also interviews Congolese soldiers who admit they are rapists.

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