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LostandFound ago

Ah here now have a look at this, the email states

She must have been aware of the shock and discouragement of all our staff. In effect she was saying: "Your excellent work is not really excellent at all, and we will work with the Norwegians to replace you in North Kivu."

Overview of some financial support offered to north Kivu from Norway https://archive.fo/CpLYH

There more info on activities in South Kivu - while geographically distinct I hope to continue to add more linkages if they exist.

Search this doc for Norway - South Kivu comes straight up - help directed towards ( among other items ) survivors of sexual violence

http://www.trustfundforvictims.org/sites/default/files/imce/Annual%20Report%20Summary%202016.pdf / http://archive.is/iAtVZ

Norways activities specifically in South Kivu brings up this report titled 'Rape with Extreme Violence: The New Pathology in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo'

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000204 / http://archive.is/0GZtt

So where had all the money for North Kivu been directed any help here?

 

UPDATE: Clinton in Goma, Kivu https://archive.is/o9wIW

2009 August - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Goma, promises $17 million aid for victims of sexual violence.

  • 6 days before the OP wikileaks email

https://archive.is/1UX8h

So Clinton promises a lot of money to Goma, nearly more than the US offered after the volcano erupted in 2002 which displaced 3-400k people - then shafts a local institution and gives it to the Norwegans 6 days later - no wonder they were donating to her.

Side note possibly related: There may to be linkages with Norwegian Church Aid - https://www.kirkensnodhjelp.no/en/ They have been working in the congo since 1990 and operate in North and south Kivu https://archive.fo/Rbho8

@DominicTesla - please see

hopeforall ago

What the fuck? These people are fucking psychopaths for sure!

From the Article

"We consider rape an efficient form of biological warfare that is inexpensive to implement, effective over large areas, and does not particularly endanger the attackers. Its effectiveness relies on the perception, deeply embedded in patriarchal societies, that women's sexuality is a prefecture of male ownership, and it is linked to the persistence of unequal gender relations and particularly to the way women's bodies are regarded ([8], p. 45). Its impact is multiplied when the woman becomes pregnant and the attack is then passed on to the next generation [9].

Rape with extreme violence, as evidenced in the DRC today, is implemented in three ways: (i) gang rape, usually by three or more men, leading to a high risk of injury; (ii) genital mutilation; and (iii) intentional transmission of sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia and HIV. Extremely violent rape has been documented in the report of 492 REV survivors in South Kivu: 57.3% of the women were convinced that the extreme violence and cruelty inflicted on them by armed forces was “proof that there was a plan to destroy and exterminate the Congolese people or in any case the communities that these women belonged to” ([8], p. 48). Seventy-two percent of women reported that they were tortured during the rape itself (beaten, wounded with machetes, genitally mutilated/burned by drops of plastic melted by flame), and 12.4% had had objects inserted into their vaginas (sticks, bottles, green bananas, pestles coated in chili pepper, rifle barrels); some women, after being raped, were killed by shots fired into their vaginas ([8], p. 34). Many women interviewed also believed that the rapes are aimed at destroying women's identity by means of “ethnic cleansing,” and that spreading HIV/AIDS and impregnating women are also deliberate acts ([8], p. 49). Such a strategy was prevalent in the Rwandan genocide ([10], p. 49])."

Anonymous987654321 ago

What the fuck....

hopeforall ago

There was a huge pedo ring busted in Norway. If we can assume that some of the Norwegian charities in both North and South Kivu have links to human trafficking and pedophile rings in Norway, then we can assume that they would look for victims of prior abuse as easy targets.