Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: Rape in the COngo:Two Films

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YOU ARE INVITED to view two films shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo and Lumo. The films will be shown at the Schomburg Research Library and the Bloomingdale Library as scheduled below.  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, iron, etc., and in coltan, which involves YOU.  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.  Lumo, tells the story of  a twenty year old woman whose fiancé and family rejected her after she was raped by marauding soldiers and left incontinent and possibly sterile. 

SCHEDULE
Schomburg Research Library
135th  St. & Lenox Avenue.
Both films shown at 6:00 p.m.
In the American Negro Theater
June 12th -- The Greatest Silence:
June 16th -- Lumo

Bloomingdale Public Library
150 West 100th Street
Betw, Columbus & Amsterdam
Both films shown at 2 p.m.
June 14th -- The Greatest Silence
June  21st -- Lumo                                                                                                                                               

Question and Answer Period
                                       
The program is being sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom  (WILPF) and is free of charge. For further information contact Jennifer Thomas, 212-533-2125, wilpfnycoordinator@yahoo.com.  Or Louise Meriwether, 212-749-3953.  lmeriwe123@aol.com.

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