They put you in the middle of everyone, on a cross, with your head down and your legs spread and they raped you in that position. And the others had to cheer them on and dance around you.” “We are dealing with the effects, but not the Over the last fifteen years, the Great Lakes Region has been the theater of numerous bloody conflicts. Sexual violence, specifically, has occurred in many countries, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where such violence has been so pervasive that it is hardly possible to estimate its extent