1 00:00:06,131 --> 00:00:10,927 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY NETFLIX 2 00:00:39,873 --> 00:00:44,169 We lived well in our village. I played with my friends. 3 00:00:46,713 --> 00:00:51,634 We woke up very early and went to the field, collect yams. 4 00:00:52,177 --> 00:00:54,387 After work we went to the river. 5 00:00:55,430 --> 00:00:58,767 We frolicked in the water without fear of crocodiles. 6 00:01:05,648 --> 00:01:08,276 When it rained, we ran outside. 7 00:01:08,526 --> 00:01:12,530 We were digging in the sand mixed with rainwater... 8 00:01:13,114 --> 00:01:15,700 We washed this mixture and found gold... 9 00:01:17,494 --> 00:01:19,954 At the end of the day 10 00:01:20,038 --> 00:01:21,706 we sang songs on the way home. 11 00:01:21,790 --> 00:01:22,624 JANE 12 00:01:23,291 --> 00:01:30,215 It's time for the kids to go home! It's time for the kids to go home! 13 00:01:34,427 --> 00:01:36,596 I fell asleep without any worries. 14 00:01:37,931 --> 00:01:40,433 We lived in peace. We had nothing to fear. 15 00:01:45,730 --> 00:01:48,733 But one day everything changed... 16 00:01:49,275 --> 00:01:54,114 I found myself in such a place which I couldn't even imagine... 17 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:18,054 BUCAVU CITY, EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 18 00:02:27,647 --> 00:02:29,691 Drive this road every day... 19 00:02:30,441 --> 00:02:31,568 it's not easy. 20 00:02:32,443 --> 00:02:37,365 It's not easy because of the mass exodus villagers to the city of Bukavu. 21 00:02:37,949 --> 00:02:40,827 People with whole families leaving their villages 22 00:02:41,286 --> 00:02:46,332 to settle in the city, where they hope to live in safety. 23 00:02:53,047 --> 00:02:56,009 ACTIVIST KRISTIN SCHULER-DESHRIVER 24 00:02:56,092 --> 00:02:59,387 until, today, about a million or more. 25 00:02:59,470 --> 00:03:03,099 It's because of the war. To people have to flee their villages. 26 00:03:03,892 --> 00:03:05,185 Everyone has moved. 27 00:03:06,895 --> 00:03:09,272 They left their stunning homes 28 00:03:09,355 --> 00:03:12,775 because in the villages they had fields and everything else. 29 00:03:12,859 --> 00:03:16,571 They live here in squalid conditions, because they have no land. 30 00:03:16,654 --> 00:03:19,699 This means that they have there was no other choice left. 31 00:03:21,117 --> 00:03:24,370 This road constantly reminds that the war is not over. 32 00:03:27,916 --> 00:03:30,418 But the most amazing thing about this road 33 00:03:30,835 --> 00:03:32,503 this is where it takes us. 34 00:03:52,106 --> 00:03:55,068 WELCOME TO THE “CITY OF JOY” 35 00:03:55,151 --> 00:03:55,985 BUKAVU, CONGO 36 00:03:56,069 --> 00:03:57,612 Our center is the place 37 00:03:57,695 --> 00:04:00,615 for rape victims and gender-based violence in the DRC. 38 00:04:00,698 --> 00:04:04,285 Here are these women trying to turn them into leaders. 39 00:04:08,706 --> 00:04:12,043 If you study the laws about sexual violence, 40 00:04:12,126 --> 00:04:14,462 we'll see that many things are prohibited. 41 00:04:14,545 --> 00:04:18,800 This means that you need defend your rights yourself. 42 00:04:19,217 --> 00:04:21,261 I am the director of the center. 43 00:04:21,386 --> 00:04:24,847 I have a problem - I walk very fast. 44 00:04:24,931 --> 00:04:27,350 CO-FOUNDER OF THE CENTER KRISTIN SCHULER-DESHRIVER 45 00:04:27,433 --> 00:04:30,228 Even if you're wearing sneakers, and I'm in heels, 46 00:04:31,396 --> 00:04:35,149 you can't keep up with me. 47 00:04:38,861 --> 00:04:40,321 No matter how fast I walk, 48 00:04:41,322 --> 00:04:45,702 I will never leave here. 49 00:04:45,994 --> 00:04:47,078 I'll grow old here. 50 00:04:48,913 --> 00:04:52,750 Many women are here were born to rapists. 51 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:57,005 We have received your invitation come to this center, 52 00:04:57,422 --> 00:04:59,090 and here we are. 53 00:04:59,507 --> 00:05:03,886 I'll explain. We want you to stay for six months of training. 54 00:05:04,637 --> 00:05:10,810 After that you can return to normal life. 55 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:12,353 Is this clear? 56 00:05:13,187 --> 00:05:15,523 They tied up my aunt 57 00:05:16,357 --> 00:05:17,734 and pulled out a knife, 58 00:05:18,359 --> 00:05:20,153 and then they hit her with this knife. 59 00:05:22,363 --> 00:05:25,074 Then they began to collect her blood. 60 00:05:25,742 --> 00:05:29,370 When she died and they collected all her blood... 61 00:05:29,704 --> 00:05:33,624 they spilled it all over the house. 62 00:05:34,876 --> 00:05:38,212 Six soldiers came to us. 63 00:05:39,213 --> 00:05:41,841 I was raped by one, then by another, 64 00:05:43,009 --> 00:05:45,470 then the third, and the fourth too. 65 00:05:46,512 --> 00:05:50,224 After the fourth, I lost consciousness. 66 00:05:52,727 --> 00:05:54,854 They took me to Panzi Hospital, 67 00:05:55,355 --> 00:05:59,192 I couldn't even walk on my own. 68 00:05:59,734 --> 00:06:04,864 I told my mom that I'm not crazy but I just want to die. 69 00:06:05,698 --> 00:06:08,534 I prayed for death but she didn't come. 70 00:06:09,202 --> 00:06:10,787 But there was no life either. 71 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:26,344 Our Father, we give thanks 72 00:06:26,427 --> 00:06:29,430 and we deliver the sick into your hands. 73 00:06:29,514 --> 00:06:34,560 Please guide us so that we can help our patients 74 00:06:34,644 --> 00:06:37,063 with your help... 75 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,482 - Amen. - Amen. 76 00:06:43,152 --> 00:06:47,740 CO-FOUNDER OF THE CENTER DR DENIS MUKWEGE 77 00:06:53,246 --> 00:06:57,083 DR. MUKWEGE OBSTETRIC-GYNECOLOGIST 78 00:06:57,166 --> 00:07:00,711 PANZI HOSPITAL, BUCAVU DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 79 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,923 I started working in 1983 80 00:07:04,465 --> 00:07:07,510 in the hospital about 100 kilometers from here. 81 00:07:11,222 --> 00:07:17,979 BUCAVU LEMERA 82 00:07:19,063 --> 00:07:21,691 LEMERA HOSPITAL, LEMERA DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 83 00:07:21,774 --> 00:07:24,652 I was the director of medicine at Lemera Hospital. 84 00:07:27,822 --> 00:07:29,449 It's in the countryside. 85 00:07:38,166 --> 00:07:40,960 Unfortunately, in 1994, 86 00:07:41,210 --> 00:07:45,423 soldiers began to appear from Rwanda, 87 00:07:45,506 --> 00:07:46,966 who went to the mountains. 88 00:07:50,011 --> 00:07:52,472 Then, in 1996, 89 00:07:53,222 --> 00:07:55,224 the hospital was attacked. 90 00:07:56,809 --> 00:08:00,521 33 patients were killed in the attack in their beds. 91 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:05,443 Many employees also died. 92 00:08:06,819 --> 00:08:09,155 They were killed in the hospital. 93 00:08:10,114 --> 00:08:10,948 Right in the beds. 94 00:08:13,409 --> 00:08:17,205 I evacuated several patients but behind 95 00:08:17,663 --> 00:08:20,750 the road was blocked, I could not return. 96 00:08:21,167 --> 00:08:22,460 Those patients were killed. 97 00:08:23,044 --> 00:08:26,547 Every time when I talk about these events, 98 00:08:27,757 --> 00:08:30,176 I see images of those women in front of me. 99 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:35,848 I remember how I saw the anger 100 00:08:36,057 --> 00:08:38,142 how everything turned upside down inside a person, 101 00:08:38,226 --> 00:08:41,103 who dedicated himself to helping and the construction of a hospital, 102 00:08:41,604 --> 00:08:43,981 who lived in such a wilderness for this reason. 103 00:08:45,525 --> 00:08:46,692 Everything was destroyed. 104 00:08:48,486 --> 00:08:51,197 I suffered for a long time afterwards. 105 00:08:53,407 --> 00:08:55,243 When I came to my senses... 106 00:08:55,701 --> 00:08:57,495 ...then I came here to Bukavu. 107 00:08:57,578 --> 00:08:58,412 BUCAVU 108 00:09:00,456 --> 00:09:02,667 I renovated two houses 109 00:09:02,833 --> 00:09:05,086 which became Panzi Hospital. 110 00:09:05,586 --> 00:09:11,384 PANZI HOSPITAL, BUKAVA DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 111 00:09:12,343 --> 00:09:15,346 The first patient of this hospital was 112 00:09:15,429 --> 00:09:17,265 victim of sexual violence. 113 00:09:18,182 --> 00:09:20,560 She was raped by several people 114 00:09:20,810 --> 00:09:23,020 and then shot her. 115 00:09:23,771 --> 00:09:26,023 I thought this was an isolated case. 116 00:09:26,107 --> 00:09:30,570 I thought it was done by mentally ill people. 117 00:09:30,736 --> 00:09:34,448 Unfortunately, I began to realize that things are completely different... 118 00:09:34,824 --> 00:09:38,953 I realized that violence is used like a weapon of war. 119 00:09:39,370 --> 00:09:43,708 The bodies of the victims were tormented by gunshots and cold steel, 120 00:09:44,125 --> 00:09:47,587 various other items. 121 00:09:55,136 --> 00:09:58,389 To date, We have visited more than 40,000 women. 122 00:10:03,019 --> 00:10:07,690 Some of them lost theirs bladders, vaginas, intestines. 123 00:10:12,987 --> 00:10:15,573 We carry out so many operations as much as we can. 124 00:10:38,512 --> 00:10:41,307 When we started in 1996, 125 00:10:42,725 --> 00:10:48,189 it was very difficult for us to realize the full depth of what is happening. 126 00:10:51,942 --> 00:10:54,779 First, this is an economic war with the participation 127 00:10:55,404 --> 00:10:58,866 all the strongest countries in the world. 128 00:10:59,116 --> 00:11:03,913 They wanted to create chaos so that control mineral resources. 129 00:11:09,710 --> 00:11:12,630 There are also many armed formations, 130 00:11:12,713 --> 00:11:15,800 that work, you know, to important people 131 00:11:15,883 --> 00:11:18,469 and also international companies from all over the world. 132 00:11:18,552 --> 00:11:20,554 UN reports note that international 133 00:11:20,638 --> 00:11:22,264 companies from different countries were engaged 134 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:25,351 development of natural resources on the territory of the Congo. 135 00:11:25,434 --> 00:11:27,186 These countries include: Belgium, Burundi, 136 00:11:27,269 --> 00:11:30,356 Virgin Islands, Canada, China, DRC, Finland, France, Ghana, 137 00:11:30,439 --> 00:11:33,609 Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Rwanda, 138 00:11:33,693 --> 00:11:36,862 South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, UAE, USA, England, Zimbabwe. 139 00:11:38,614 --> 00:11:41,575 A number of companies use the services armed groups, 140 00:11:41,659 --> 00:11:44,787 who know the area and protect mines and mines. 141 00:11:47,123 --> 00:11:50,793 We don't even know which one works for whom? 142 00:11:50,876 --> 00:11:52,628 Which of them are the army and which are not? 143 00:11:52,712 --> 00:11:54,797 Which one is the real police? 144 00:11:56,507 --> 00:12:00,302 These groups consist from very poor people. 145 00:12:00,386 --> 00:12:02,763 They don't have a penny, they are like slaves. 146 00:12:03,597 --> 00:12:05,766 If you have a weapon, you can get food. 147 00:12:05,850 --> 00:12:07,560 You can rape, anything is possible. 148 00:12:09,645 --> 00:12:12,189 I once saw an amazing map. 149 00:12:12,273 --> 00:12:13,482 REPUBLIC OF CONGO 150 00:12:14,150 --> 00:12:15,985 Map of rape and trade. 151 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:21,073 It can be seen that around the deposits most rapes. 152 00:12:22,283 --> 00:12:25,077 It is a kind of weapon of war. 153 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,831 Imagine that your village was attacked. 154 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:30,666 Children were raped. 155 00:12:31,125 --> 00:12:33,252 Mothers and grandmothers were raped. 156 00:12:34,211 --> 00:12:37,214 What do you think survivors should do? 157 00:12:37,882 --> 00:12:38,716 Everyone leaves. 158 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:43,846 And bandits seize villages, mostly near the industries. 159 00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:51,854 These mini-armies very thoughtful strategy. 160 00:12:52,146 --> 00:12:56,108 These women are often raped in front of their husbands 161 00:12:56,192 --> 00:12:58,194 and their own children. 162 00:12:58,736 --> 00:13:00,529 They don't know how to live with it. 163 00:13:03,532 --> 00:13:06,577 Husbands whose wives were raped 164 00:13:06,660 --> 00:13:10,664 feel humiliated 165 00:13:10,956 --> 00:13:15,252 and leave their wives, trying to maintain dignity. 166 00:13:15,377 --> 00:13:19,882 The victim bears the brunt of the blame. 167 00:13:20,216 --> 00:13:23,844 This completely destroys both the family, so does the community. 168 00:13:25,429 --> 00:13:28,766 Today I am glad of the villages completely deserted. 169 00:13:31,727 --> 00:13:34,313 Obviously it's like this tactics of warfare. 170 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,956 Kiki! 171 00:13:52,623 --> 00:13:54,542 Top up my phone, please. 172 00:13:57,169 --> 00:13:58,379 She'll throw me some money. 173 00:14:00,422 --> 00:14:03,092 I promised to bring sweets to the children. 174 00:14:19,525 --> 00:14:21,944 I carry a special bag in my bag. 175 00:14:22,027 --> 00:14:23,195 This is what they look like... 176 00:14:24,113 --> 00:14:25,489 ...money in Congo. 177 00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:30,911 This is the kind of money in the Congo. Do you see? 178 00:14:31,745 --> 00:14:35,374 That's why I carry them in a bag. That's the kind of money we have. 179 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,836 I was born in the Congo grew up here in Bukavu. 180 00:14:40,379 --> 00:14:44,466 Most of the 20th century Congo was a colony of Belgium 181 00:14:45,175 --> 00:14:49,096 and the history of the country is closely connected with my personal story. 182 00:14:49,388 --> 00:14:52,433 I have a black mother and a white father. 183 00:14:52,933 --> 00:14:56,687 They grew up in completely different worlds. 184 00:14:56,770 --> 00:14:58,564 My mother is illiterate. 185 00:14:59,565 --> 00:15:00,399 MOTHER CHRISTINE 186 00:15:00,482 --> 00:15:04,069 She's from a very... perhaps from the poorest family in the Congo. 187 00:15:04,236 --> 00:15:07,948 She cut tea and coffee on the plantation my grandparents. 188 00:15:08,574 --> 00:15:13,120 And my father comes from a very rich Belgian family. 189 00:15:13,203 --> 00:15:15,456 Such arrogant people, colonialists, 190 00:15:15,831 --> 00:15:19,043 but he went against the white people. 191 00:15:20,210 --> 00:15:23,505 They fell in love with each other it was forbidden love. 192 00:15:23,589 --> 00:15:25,215 His parents abandoned him. 193 00:15:25,341 --> 00:15:28,093 My father was kicked out of the house. 194 00:15:28,177 --> 00:15:29,803 He had to live with the workers. 195 00:15:30,137 --> 00:15:31,639 They forbade their son 196 00:15:31,722 --> 00:15:35,643 who was with a black woman, return to their house. 197 00:15:35,726 --> 00:15:37,186 It was so shameful... 198 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:38,604 impossible... 199 00:15:39,396 --> 00:15:43,317 I had to find my place in the middle 200 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,069 these two cultures. 201 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,531 I saw my mother suffer because she's black 202 00:15:50,115 --> 00:15:51,617 and didn't go to school 203 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:54,995 so I understand well those who has gone through suffering. 204 00:15:55,496 --> 00:15:58,749 I knew that I belonged here in the Congo. 205 00:16:06,006 --> 00:16:06,840 Thank you. 206 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:09,134 I am a mother of two children, 207 00:16:09,218 --> 00:16:11,637 and when I see how children suffer on the street, 208 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,681 I just want to shake up the world. 209 00:16:21,355 --> 00:16:23,357 JANE IS ACCEPTED TO STUDY AT THE CENTER PROJECT MANAGER OF THE CENTER MOTHER BACHU BAHATI 210 00:16:25,526 --> 00:16:32,241 So, you learned about our hospital and came to Bukavu and Panzi? 211 00:16:32,783 --> 00:16:38,038 Yes, they brought me by plane. 212 00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:43,252 I have been operated on many times for many years. 213 00:16:43,919 --> 00:16:45,295 - In the hospital? - Yes. 214 00:16:48,424 --> 00:16:51,343 When I arrived at the center, 215 00:16:52,261 --> 00:16:53,595 I was unhappy. 216 00:16:54,722 --> 00:16:59,518 But I told myself: “A lot of people want to help you.” 217 00:16:59,893 --> 00:17:04,565 I felt worthless and kept to herself. 218 00:17:07,317 --> 00:17:11,113 When it all started we didn't know what war was. 219 00:17:12,614 --> 00:17:17,703 The first time I heard the word “rape,” we didn't know its meaning. 220 00:17:18,746 --> 00:17:22,249 We are like this couldn't even imagine. 221 00:17:22,708 --> 00:17:25,878 Then we found out that the soldiers... 222 00:17:26,879 --> 00:17:30,424 suddenly appeared as if out of nowhere. 223 00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:35,304 Have you heard that girls are dying? and the like. From that time on we began to live in fear. 224 00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:44,188 JANE 225 00:17:44,271 --> 00:17:47,107 When I got to this center, I said: 226 00:17:48,692 --> 00:17:50,527 “Yeah, I’m not the only one!” 227 00:17:50,986 --> 00:17:52,988 And each of us... 228 00:17:53,906 --> 00:17:55,407 its own story. 229 00:18:04,792 --> 00:18:08,128 It was about eight o'clock in the evening. 230 00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:13,217 We were at home. 231 00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:19,640 Suddenly shouts were heard: "Open the door!" 232 00:18:19,723 --> 00:18:23,060 They chose three girls and ordered them to lie down. 233 00:18:23,602 --> 00:18:26,688 Then they raped them. 234 00:18:27,606 --> 00:18:30,025 When they finished, they killed them. 235 00:18:32,820 --> 00:18:35,364 We walked for a very long time through the forest. 236 00:18:37,491 --> 00:18:38,992 Then we came to their camp. 237 00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:43,997 We were raped for two weeks constantly, day and night. 238 00:18:45,916 --> 00:18:49,711 One evening we ran away ran without looking back. 239 00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:54,174 When we returned some parents were happy 240 00:18:54,341 --> 00:18:56,218 but my father was not happy. 241 00:18:57,886 --> 00:19:00,514 He said: "You came back after being raped 242 00:19:00,597 --> 00:19:03,725 and brought a curse with her. you have to get out of here!” 243 00:19:03,934 --> 00:19:09,398 My mother took care of me. She did everything for me... 244 00:19:10,524 --> 00:19:12,776 Then I gave birth. 245 00:19:26,123 --> 00:19:28,083 The goal of our center is 246 00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:32,212 create a revolution in the minds of Congolese women... 247 00:19:32,296 --> 00:19:34,506 CENTER PROJECT MANAGER MOTHER BACHU BAHATI 248 00:19:34,590 --> 00:19:36,175 ...victims of violence. 249 00:19:36,592 --> 00:19:38,427 I ask each of these women: 250 00:19:38,927 --> 00:19:41,680 "What do you want to do in our center? 251 00:19:42,347 --> 00:19:44,850 And what do you want to do next?” 252 00:19:46,768 --> 00:19:48,395 AUTHOR OF PLAYS, ACTIVIST IV ENSLER 253 00:19:48,478 --> 00:19:50,814 I met Eve Ensler in 2007, 254 00:19:50,898 --> 00:19:53,692 when she gave an interview at New York University. 255 00:19:54,234 --> 00:19:56,778 I heard about her play “The Vagina Monologues” 256 00:19:56,904 --> 00:20:00,157 and also about her work with victims of sexual violence. 257 00:20:01,158 --> 00:20:03,535 Returning from New York 258 00:20:03,619 --> 00:20:06,705 I told Christine which I think is very important, 259 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:10,292 for her to contact Eve. 260 00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:12,836 He said: “You've probably heard of her. 261 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,880 She wrote something about a vagina.” 262 00:20:14,963 --> 00:20:17,424 As soon as he said that she's famous 263 00:20:17,507 --> 00:20:20,302 I said, “No, thank you,” and left. 264 00:20:20,385 --> 00:20:22,554 Many celebrities came here. 265 00:20:22,846 --> 00:20:25,474 No respect they were just taking pictures of us, 266 00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:27,684 like animals in a zoo. 267 00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:31,355 They were collecting donations, but we... We don’t know where these funds went. 268 00:20:31,438 --> 00:20:33,482 For me it meant one thing - fini. 269 00:20:33,565 --> 00:20:35,692 But I contacted her and said: 270 00:20:35,776 --> 00:20:39,196 "Madam, I think you should come to Congo. 271 00:20:39,279 --> 00:20:41,698 I invite you to visit Panzi.” 272 00:20:41,782 --> 00:20:43,075 2007 273 00:20:43,158 --> 00:20:44,076 And she arrived. 274 00:20:48,413 --> 00:20:51,750 When I saw how she behaves with women, I... 275 00:20:54,044 --> 00:20:56,046 I decided not to criticize 276 00:20:56,129 --> 00:20:58,090 because the only thing that matters is 277 00:20:58,173 --> 00:21:00,634 it's a desire to change something. 278 00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:04,096 It was as if we were glued together. We have a common mission. 279 00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:07,849 I think that in a few weeks, held in Panzi, 280 00:21:07,933 --> 00:21:09,101 we became very close. 281 00:21:09,518 --> 00:21:14,064 They took a rag which was on the barrel of the weapon, 282 00:21:14,189 --> 00:21:17,025 and shoved it into my organ. 283 00:21:17,109 --> 00:21:18,443 Since the war in Bosnia, 284 00:21:18,527 --> 00:21:23,282 I worked in many wars, where the military raped women, 285 00:21:23,407 --> 00:21:24,825 whether in Bosnia, 286 00:21:24,908 --> 00:21:26,410 Haiti or Afghanistan. 287 00:21:26,535 --> 00:21:29,955 When I arrived in Congo, the power of these stories 288 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,082 was above everything what I heard before. 289 00:21:32,165 --> 00:21:36,253 Behind me I saw a child on fire, who tried to put out the flames. 290 00:21:36,461 --> 00:21:42,217 I grabbed her and the walls collapsed on us. 291 00:21:42,342 --> 00:21:43,927 JANE, 2007, PANZI HOSPITAL 292 00:21:44,011 --> 00:21:47,264 I'm scared to go home I'm afraid of being raped again... 293 00:21:47,347 --> 00:21:50,267 We asked the girls: “What do you want?” They replied: 294 00:21:50,350 --> 00:21:54,396 "We want to live there, where we can be our own bosses.” 295 00:21:54,813 --> 00:21:56,356 Then things began to take shape 296 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:57,649 puzzle pieces. 297 00:21:57,733 --> 00:21:59,401 Then we founded this center. 298 00:21:59,484 --> 00:22:00,944 It will be difficult for them to continue living. 299 00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:02,446 2007 FIRST MEETING OF THE CENTER 300 00:22:02,529 --> 00:22:04,114 No hospital, no support. 301 00:22:04,197 --> 00:22:07,367 This should become not a permanent place to live, 302 00:22:07,451 --> 00:22:09,328 but a temporary stage in life, 303 00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:10,954 after the hospital... 304 00:22:11,038 --> 00:22:15,125 They will live here before returning to normal life. 305 00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:19,421 But here they will learn look at the world differently. 306 00:22:19,713 --> 00:22:20,839 We discussed that... 307 00:22:20,922 --> 00:22:22,758 IV ENSLER KRISTIN SCHULER-DESHRIVER 308 00:22:22,841 --> 00:22:25,594 ...how to make leaders out of them, 309 00:22:26,178 --> 00:22:28,347 so that women who have experienced the worst, 310 00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:31,808 became representative voices for this country. I think that these women there is incredible power 311 00:22:35,812 --> 00:22:40,650 with which they can change a lot. 312 00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:42,736 We agreed, we'll do it together. 313 00:22:42,819 --> 00:22:44,988 I'll come back and start fundraising... 314 00:22:45,072 --> 00:22:46,698 I'll do my best 315 00:22:46,782 --> 00:22:49,534 for these women. If Dr. Mukwege supports me, 316 00:22:49,618 --> 00:22:51,620 who I trust will do anything. 317 00:22:51,912 --> 00:22:53,955 What do we call the center? 318 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:56,416 - “City of Joy”. - Yes, “City of Joy.” 319 00:22:56,541 --> 00:22:57,501 "City of Joy" 320 00:22:58,752 --> 00:23:00,128 ONE YEAR LATER 321 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:03,340 I heard someone say 322 00:23:03,423 --> 00:23:06,927 that they don't like the name "City of Joy"? 323 00:23:07,010 --> 00:23:10,889 He says: “These women are victims. 324 00:23:11,223 --> 00:23:14,643 The word “joy” is inappropriate here.” 325 00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:17,312 - They don't seem to understand. - Yes. 326 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:20,023 - We give joy... - Exactly. 327 00:23:20,357 --> 00:23:23,443 So that women stop being constantly unhappy. 328 00:23:23,527 --> 00:23:25,570 - Constantly. - That's the whole point. 329 00:23:28,365 --> 00:23:29,950 - All this! - All this land! 330 00:23:30,033 --> 00:23:32,327 All the way to there, all this land? 331 00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:38,250 They asked what we want we said we wanted a house. 332 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:39,334 JANE 333 00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:42,462 A place away from the soldiers where you can live in peace. 334 00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:47,717 At first we thought that they are deceiving us. 335 00:23:49,386 --> 00:23:50,637 But it was true. 336 00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:53,974 On the day of the laying ceremony 337 00:23:54,057 --> 00:23:55,392 first stone 338 00:23:56,017 --> 00:23:57,102 we felt joy. 339 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,457 2011 OPENING CEREMONY 340 00:24:19,082 --> 00:24:20,917 Where are the women who built the center? 341 00:24:22,502 --> 00:24:26,965 I couldn't lift those bricks myself which you raised. 342 00:24:27,215 --> 00:24:31,845 And so, sisters, we will change our suffering and turn it into strength. 343 00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:47,235 FIRST CLASS OF STUDENTS 344 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:48,153 TULIZO 345 00:24:49,488 --> 00:24:54,117 about what happened to us. When I hear others' stories, 346 00:24:54,201 --> 00:24:56,453 I think that everything is not so bad for me. - Did you hear what she said? - Yes. 347 00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:02,709 There are no worse or better stories here... 348 00:25:03,710 --> 00:25:05,295 Why lose hope? 349 00:25:06,046 --> 00:25:06,880 Right? 350 00:25:07,422 --> 00:25:10,217 Nobody remembers what happened before birth. 351 00:25:10,926 --> 00:25:13,303 It's the same here. You are born into a new life. 352 00:25:13,470 --> 00:25:15,472 Everything will only get better from here on out. 353 00:25:22,812 --> 00:25:24,648 SELF DEFENSE INSTRUCTOR DUNCAN BOMB 354 00:25:24,731 --> 00:25:26,024 Which hand are we holding? 355 00:25:26,149 --> 00:25:27,692 Right. This one, the left one. 356 00:25:28,235 --> 00:25:29,069 Virgo, right? 357 00:25:31,738 --> 00:25:33,532 Got it? Where do we hit him next? 358 00:25:34,991 --> 00:25:35,909 In the stomach! 359 00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:47,796 Stained glass! 360 00:25:49,256 --> 00:25:50,090 Do you see? 361 00:25:50,173 --> 00:25:54,928 This fabric is always in fashion. Always beautiful. 362 00:25:55,804 --> 00:25:57,806 And this leafy pattern. 363 00:25:58,139 --> 00:25:59,474 TVs. 364 00:26:03,728 --> 00:26:04,854 And this one is called... 365 00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:07,691 Voila! Vagina. 366 00:26:10,151 --> 00:26:13,572 If you want a dress, like Mama Georgina's 367 00:26:13,697 --> 00:26:14,739 please stand up! 368 00:26:15,949 --> 00:26:19,244 This is quality fabric. 369 00:26:19,327 --> 00:26:22,038 I really like her. I would like for you to take care of her... 370 00:26:25,917 --> 00:26:28,253 because sewing machines will be delivered soon. 371 00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:48,148 It's always been hard for me to be the granddaughter of colonialists, 372 00:26:48,231 --> 00:26:49,733 but when the war began, 373 00:26:50,025 --> 00:26:51,776 everything changed in my head. 374 00:26:51,943 --> 00:26:54,404 I realized that I had to help. 375 00:26:56,781 --> 00:26:57,907 She's so young. 376 00:26:58,283 --> 00:26:59,200 Very young. 377 00:26:59,993 --> 00:27:01,578 We have some younger than her. 378 00:27:01,661 --> 00:27:04,205 Once I was in the hospital, there were two girls there 379 00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:06,291 very small, raped. 380 00:27:08,877 --> 00:27:10,337 It's a vicious circle. 381 00:27:11,546 --> 00:27:14,132 I cried for a long time then. 382 00:27:14,215 --> 00:27:17,135 For the first time in my life I thought, that she is ready to kill. Once upon a time there was a baby only six months. 383 00:27:20,972 --> 00:27:22,223 Months, not years. 384 00:27:23,016 --> 00:27:26,311 She was raped. She died in my arms. I couldn't help her. 385 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:29,773 My mind was blown. 386 00:27:29,939 --> 00:27:33,693 I wanted to find everyone responsible for this. 387 00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:35,320 I was beside myself. 388 00:27:35,403 --> 00:27:37,322 I wanted to take this little body 389 00:27:37,739 --> 00:27:39,449 and attributed to the main thing in the UN, 390 00:27:39,532 --> 00:27:41,660 then take this body to... 391 00:27:41,743 --> 00:27:43,662 to the governor, say: “What is this”? 392 00:27:47,415 --> 00:27:49,042 Before bed, you know 393 00:27:49,125 --> 00:27:52,879 I started seeing children who died in my arms, 394 00:27:52,962 --> 00:27:54,756 and their dead relatives. 395 00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:57,300 My best friend was killed. 396 00:27:58,051 --> 00:28:02,055 My neighbors, the whole family, shot near my house. 397 00:28:02,931 --> 00:28:04,766 I felt useless. 398 00:28:06,935 --> 00:28:10,730 I cried every day and couldn't sleep. 399 00:28:16,111 --> 00:28:18,488 One Sunday, I saw her. 400 00:28:18,571 --> 00:28:20,615 She's so thin 401 00:28:20,949 --> 00:28:25,036 that she could barely stand on her feet. 402 00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:28,123 I was walking along the road, and he was driving past. 403 00:28:28,832 --> 00:28:29,708 Didn't recognize me. 404 00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:32,836 Then, apparently, I realized that it was me, and returned. 405 00:28:32,919 --> 00:28:34,129 I was worried. 406 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:36,756 Something had to be done urgently. 407 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,091 I told Kristin: 408 00:28:38,174 --> 00:28:43,179 "I think you've reached your breaking point." 409 00:28:43,471 --> 00:28:47,016 That evening I looked at yourself in the mirror, 410 00:28:47,308 --> 00:28:48,893 and saw my shadow. 411 00:28:48,977 --> 00:28:50,770 I saw a sick woman. 412 00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:53,189 It was obvious. I really... 413 00:28:54,023 --> 00:28:55,442 was on the verge of death. 414 00:28:56,192 --> 00:28:59,988 Then I decided to change something, to help myself get through this. 415 00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:13,293 Good leader 416 00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:15,628 must be good at telling stories. 417 00:29:15,962 --> 00:29:19,966 A good story needs to be told openly and honestly. 418 00:29:20,091 --> 00:29:20,925 Exactly. 419 00:29:21,217 --> 00:29:23,887 And the more honest you are willing to be, 420 00:29:24,637 --> 00:29:28,016 the more honest others will be next to you, 421 00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:32,395 because when you listen to a person, experienced the same thing as you, 422 00:29:32,479 --> 00:29:34,773 you feel safe. 423 00:29:34,856 --> 00:29:36,816 I tell my story to people 424 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:42,030 for example, I say: “Hi, I’m Eve.” Do you understand? 425 00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:43,448 CO-FOUNDER OF THE CENTER IV ENSLER 426 00:29:43,531 --> 00:29:45,617 I've been fighting for a long time with violence against women, 427 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:46,910 a very long time ago. 428 00:29:47,243 --> 00:29:51,915 This is because I was beaten when I was a child. and raped by my father. 429 00:29:55,335 --> 00:29:59,631 I understood that there were other women experienced something similar. 430 00:29:59,714 --> 00:30:04,177 When Mama Eve told her story 431 00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:07,222 I listened very carefully. 432 00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:12,560 I realized that in Western countries too This also happens, God! 433 00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:16,731 It gave me inner strength and gave me hope. 434 00:30:18,191 --> 00:30:20,944 This speech of yours will change your society. 435 00:30:21,027 --> 00:30:23,238 This speech you can give anywhere. 436 00:30:23,363 --> 00:30:24,197 In the church... 437 00:30:25,907 --> 00:30:26,866 ...on the market... 438 00:30:27,826 --> 00:30:28,743 ...on the street... 439 00:30:29,869 --> 00:30:31,871 It doesn't matter where, you say. 440 00:30:32,705 --> 00:30:35,333 Until people say: “Stop talking already.” 441 00:30:35,458 --> 00:30:39,128 But you say, “No. I'll stop then when the violence stops." 442 00:30:40,088 --> 00:30:42,215 When I wrote “The Vagina Monologues,” 443 00:30:42,465 --> 00:30:45,718 everyone said: "Don't use the word 'vagina'." 444 00:30:47,637 --> 00:30:48,972 All over the world. 445 00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:53,309 "Don't say the word 'cuma.' No need for cuma." 446 00:30:54,561 --> 00:30:55,478 “No need for cuma.” 447 00:30:56,563 --> 00:30:57,856 All over the world. 448 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:02,902 And I repeated: “Vagina. Vagina. Vagina". 449 00:31:04,404 --> 00:31:06,155 A few years later 450 00:31:06,656 --> 00:31:07,824 many women... 451 00:31:09,450 --> 00:31:10,952 started saying cuma. 452 00:31:11,828 --> 00:31:12,662 Tout le monde! 453 00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:17,292 Vagin! Cuma! Puke! In all languages! 454 00:31:17,375 --> 00:31:19,669 The point is not to say this word. 455 00:31:21,963 --> 00:31:23,965 Telling the truth... 456 00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:27,468 we break the silence. 457 00:31:30,305 --> 00:31:31,514 We are changing the world. 458 00:31:33,725 --> 00:31:38,229 People kept asking me: "Don't say the word 'vagina'." 459 00:31:38,313 --> 00:31:41,983 And I answered: "When women are free, 460 00:31:42,817 --> 00:31:46,195 Then I’ll stop saying ‘vagina’.” Right? 461 00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:48,990 It's the same story in your society. 462 00:31:49,616 --> 00:31:53,828 When women gain freedom, then you can stop talking. 463 00:32:10,261 --> 00:32:14,098 For me, one of the worst things in this war in the Congo is that 464 00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:17,435 how long has it been going on? and how many people were affected, 465 00:32:17,518 --> 00:32:19,437 and how the world doesn't care. 466 00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:22,482 As many as six million died 467 00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:25,652 hundreds of thousands of women were tortured and raped. 468 00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:27,779 During the war in Bosnia 469 00:32:27,862 --> 00:32:30,156 were raped from 20 to 40 thousand women. 470 00:32:30,239 --> 00:32:32,116 The war ended after a year and a half, 471 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,826 after all, it is in the center of Europe. 472 00:32:34,118 --> 00:32:37,664 Why then this war it's been going on for so long 473 00:32:37,747 --> 00:32:40,875 and the world community does almost nothing? 474 00:32:42,043 --> 00:32:43,962 Where is the rest of the world? 475 00:32:44,045 --> 00:32:46,673 Nobody notices interference by other countries 476 00:32:46,756 --> 00:32:49,300 in this war for mining. 477 00:32:51,886 --> 00:32:54,055 Coltan is mined here. 478 00:32:54,138 --> 00:32:58,142 This mineral is used in all our iPhones and computers. 479 00:33:01,854 --> 00:33:03,272 DRC is a major supplier 480 00:33:03,356 --> 00:33:05,942 to world markets coltan, tin, tungsten and gold, 481 00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:08,027 known as “conflict minerals.” 482 00:33:08,111 --> 00:33:09,862 These processed minerals 483 00:33:09,946 --> 00:33:11,572 bought by companies all over the world 484 00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:14,826 for the production of smartphones, computers, cars and jewelry. 485 00:33:14,909 --> 00:33:16,828 Among these companies: 486 00:33:16,911 --> 00:33:20,665 NINTENDO, SAMSUNG, SHARP, LG, SONY, HTC, NIKON, TOSHIBA, CANON, LENOVO, IBM 487 00:33:20,748 --> 00:33:22,041 and others. 488 00:33:23,126 --> 00:33:27,714 Congo is one of the richest countries in the world. 489 00:33:28,047 --> 00:33:28,881 This is coltan. 490 00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:34,012 The rest of the countries are like vultures. 491 00:33:34,345 --> 00:33:36,889 They only pursue their own interests. 492 00:33:37,432 --> 00:33:41,310 Every day you can see their helicopters with gold, 493 00:33:41,394 --> 00:33:44,397 with coltan, with diamonds, with uranium. 494 00:33:45,064 --> 00:33:47,066 It's not in anyone's interest to stop this. 495 00:33:47,692 --> 00:33:52,030 These international companies will continue to finance the war, 496 00:33:52,113 --> 00:33:55,366 to have access to deposits and ruin the Congo. 497 00:33:56,242 --> 00:33:57,869 Everything is interconnected. 498 00:33:58,911 --> 00:34:01,456 Millions of Congolese died 499 00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:04,500 but no one talks about genocide. 500 00:34:04,625 --> 00:34:06,419 How many more must die before it is considered genocide? 501 00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:16,971 It's like the Congo is for them it's some kind of fairy tale. 502 00:34:18,556 --> 00:34:20,850 Add racism to this 503 00:34:21,476 --> 00:34:23,895 and colonial past. 504 00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:26,564 All this together. 505 00:34:27,523 --> 00:34:31,944 Nobody even perceives the Congolese like real people. 506 00:34:57,970 --> 00:35:01,390 JANE 507 00:35:01,891 --> 00:35:03,851 I wanted to change my hairstyle 508 00:35:04,685 --> 00:35:06,771 I bought a set of hair extensions. 509 00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:09,857 I began to take better care of myself. 510 00:35:10,358 --> 00:35:13,611 I started to feel human again. 511 00:35:16,948 --> 00:35:18,533 What's going on here? 512 00:35:20,451 --> 00:35:22,537 This man touched her buttocks. 513 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,997 What right does he have to do this? 514 00:35:25,081 --> 00:35:28,793 Congolese laws prohibit men touch women other than your wife. 515 00:35:28,876 --> 00:35:33,422 In your speech you must demonstrate self-confidence and strength. 516 00:35:33,506 --> 00:35:34,674 If I do this... 517 00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:37,093 Hey mister, fuck off! 518 00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:39,762 Everyone here, he wants to rape me! 519 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,393 He held me like this then he twisted my hand... 520 00:35:49,021 --> 00:35:53,067 What if he attacks with a knife or firearm? 521 00:36:02,451 --> 00:36:07,081 It was hard for me, because besides me No one in my family was raped. 522 00:36:07,498 --> 00:36:10,960 I was so angry, I thought that I don't deserve to live anymore. 523 00:36:13,337 --> 00:36:17,550 The female organ is called... 524 00:36:17,717 --> 00:36:18,759 Vagina... 525 00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:21,637 Why are you shy say this word? 526 00:36:21,929 --> 00:36:24,599 We were taught that saying this word is a sin. 527 00:36:25,516 --> 00:36:27,059 Is the word “hand” bad? 528 00:36:27,393 --> 00:36:34,192 No. But saying the word “vagina” is considered a sin. 529 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:39,947 Are you afraid it's something bad? This is what sin is. 530 00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:41,866 How many of you haven't seen it? 531 00:36:43,659 --> 00:36:45,161 Never seen it at all? 532 00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:52,960 You can't become an individual without accepting yourself completely. 533 00:36:53,336 --> 00:36:54,670 Do you know what I mean? 534 00:36:54,962 --> 00:36:57,465 Many of us look at themselves in the mirror. 535 00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,967 Do you like what you see? Or not? 536 00:37:00,051 --> 00:37:03,971 Do you consider yourself beautiful? Jane? 537 00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:09,060 I like my appearance. I consider myself attractive. 538 00:37:09,518 --> 00:37:11,229 Do each of you have a mirror? 539 00:37:11,896 --> 00:37:13,898 The doctor asked... 540 00:37:15,441 --> 00:37:19,403 some of you looked in the mirror on your vagina? 541 00:37:21,614 --> 00:37:22,448 A? 542 00:37:23,783 --> 00:37:25,534 Who has already looked at themselves? 543 00:37:26,702 --> 00:37:30,373 Sister, when you looked at the vagina, what did you see? 544 00:37:30,581 --> 00:37:33,209 I saw a burnt plant there. 545 00:37:35,419 --> 00:37:37,129 What's so funny? 546 00:37:37,421 --> 00:37:38,839 Stand up and say okay. 547 00:37:40,174 --> 00:37:44,136 In the mirror I saw different parts and a hole 548 00:37:44,220 --> 00:37:48,516 and I wondered what is this? 549 00:37:48,641 --> 00:37:49,809 A hole, he says. 550 00:37:50,434 --> 00:37:51,644 Who else? 551 00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:55,690 My vagina scared me. I don't want anyone to see her. 552 00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:57,358 Jane. 553 00:37:57,525 --> 00:38:00,027 When I look on the female genital organs... 554 00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:02,488 - Your organs! - Yes, on my organs, 555 00:38:02,571 --> 00:38:03,698 they are so scary! 556 00:38:04,782 --> 00:38:08,369 We all have to learn love ourselves. 557 00:38:08,869 --> 00:38:12,748 You have an organ which is very important and beautiful. 558 00:38:12,957 --> 00:38:15,042 This beautiful creature is within us. 559 00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:18,170 Don't be afraid to look at him. 560 00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:19,630 - Can you hear me? - Yes. 561 00:38:20,006 --> 00:38:21,799 The doctor has given you a task. 562 00:38:22,550 --> 00:38:24,760 He will come again on Monday. 563 00:38:25,636 --> 00:38:27,888 Everyone should draw themselves. 564 00:38:28,514 --> 00:38:30,099 Don't draw something that isn't yours. 565 00:38:30,224 --> 00:38:31,267 Jane. 566 00:38:35,062 --> 00:38:35,896 Tulizo. 567 00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:59,378 It was the first time I wore nun's robe. 568 00:39:00,004 --> 00:39:02,214 They started setting the other nuns on fire 569 00:39:02,548 --> 00:39:03,674 and I started crying. 570 00:39:04,175 --> 00:39:08,554 When I screamed I was shot in the forehead. 571 00:39:08,804 --> 00:39:11,015 I started to lose consciousness. 572 00:39:11,098 --> 00:39:11,932 RUSSO 573 00:39:12,058 --> 00:39:15,519 I felt dizzy and fell. 574 00:39:16,562 --> 00:39:19,482 On the ground I saw many pregnant women. 575 00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:21,650 And I saw soldiers... 576 00:39:21,942 --> 00:39:25,071 they cut their bellies, and embryos... 577 00:39:26,113 --> 00:39:27,073 fell out. 578 00:39:27,782 --> 00:39:32,119 My head was spinning. There is no one left in the village... 579 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:37,833 A soldier approached me with a machete. I told him: “Leave me alone.” 580 00:39:38,250 --> 00:39:43,005 He said, that today is my lucky day 581 00:39:43,130 --> 00:39:45,549 and led me out of the forest. 582 00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:49,720 He said he killed so many people that the desire to kill has passed. 583 00:39:49,970 --> 00:39:55,476 He pointed down the road and along it I reached Bukavu... 584 00:40:48,070 --> 00:40:51,490 I remember as a child 585 00:40:52,575 --> 00:40:54,118 we went for walks in groups, 586 00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:55,870 could go to the forest 587 00:40:56,996 --> 00:40:59,331 and inspire each other to write poetry. 588 00:41:01,250 --> 00:41:06,338 We went to the forest in order to to feel human warmth. 589 00:41:07,214 --> 00:41:12,344 The love you can feel just listening to the birds singing. 590 00:41:15,806 --> 00:41:18,684 When we walked into the forest... 591 00:41:18,767 --> 00:41:19,602 JANE 592 00:41:19,685 --> 00:41:21,479 ...with friends, we danced there, 593 00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:25,357 ...we all ran together through the forest... 594 00:41:41,332 --> 00:41:47,213 We couldn't even imagine that it is possible to be cruel to each other. 595 00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:55,763 Unfortunately, the forest has ceased to exist a place for romantic walks. 596 00:41:55,888 --> 00:42:01,268 It has ceased to be a place where writers get inspiration. 597 00:42:01,352 --> 00:42:03,020 This is not a place of peace and freedom, 598 00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:06,982 and a place of cruelty and violence. 599 00:42:07,066 --> 00:42:09,944 There are women there don't feel safe 600 00:42:10,528 --> 00:42:12,530 when looking for brushwood or water. 601 00:42:13,072 --> 00:42:14,698 This is how I think about the forest 602 00:42:15,407 --> 00:42:18,661 when a snake bites you, 603 00:42:19,078 --> 00:42:21,789 you won't go back there because... 604 00:42:22,665 --> 00:42:24,416 you're afraid to go back there. 605 00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:27,586 Women no longer go to the fields. They're even afraid 606 00:42:27,670 --> 00:42:31,048 go for water. Our society seems... 607 00:42:31,131 --> 00:42:32,049 was destroyed. 608 00:42:32,383 --> 00:42:35,344 There is famine in the country, After all, they don’t grow anything else. 609 00:42:35,594 --> 00:42:37,596 It's terrible because everything grows here. 610 00:42:37,930 --> 00:42:40,474 The soil here is incredibly fertile. 611 00:44:19,073 --> 00:44:20,908 How is your urination? 612 00:44:22,284 --> 00:44:24,036 Does everything work out without problems? 613 00:44:24,286 --> 00:44:26,288 No problem. Everything is coming out. 614 00:44:26,413 --> 00:44:28,582 Are you still together with your husband? 615 00:44:28,707 --> 00:44:29,833 My husband is dead. 616 00:44:30,125 --> 00:44:31,293 Did he die in the war? 617 00:44:31,377 --> 00:44:36,674 In the late 1990s, when I started working with these women, 618 00:44:36,757 --> 00:44:38,092 I interviewed them. 619 00:44:38,342 --> 00:44:40,761 When the rebels came, I already heard 620 00:44:40,928 --> 00:44:43,055 about what is happening in the villages. 621 00:44:43,722 --> 00:44:45,391 They threatened to kill me 622 00:44:45,474 --> 00:44:47,601 I thought I was going crazy. 623 00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:50,270 When you listen to it as a story, 624 00:44:51,063 --> 00:44:52,147 it's not that terrible. 625 00:44:52,564 --> 00:44:55,526 But when they show me the consequences scars on the body, 626 00:44:55,693 --> 00:44:57,444 the moment has come when 627 00:44:57,528 --> 00:45:00,155 my head could not work properly. 628 00:45:01,740 --> 00:45:05,077 For the first time I saw one, two, three, 629 00:45:05,703 --> 00:45:07,705 forty, one hundred, thousand... 630 00:45:10,332 --> 00:45:12,584 ten thousand... Do you think it's easy? 631 00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:16,505 I told myself: “This cannot go on.” 632 00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:22,553 I couldn't sleep because of nightmares... 633 00:45:23,595 --> 00:45:26,974 I started having problems with palpitations. 634 00:45:27,307 --> 00:45:31,019 I remembered these stories and asked: 635 00:45:31,645 --> 00:45:32,938 "Where is my daughter?" 636 00:45:33,230 --> 00:45:37,151 And immediately, without even seeing her, I started to shake. 637 00:45:37,526 --> 00:45:39,695 I wanted to know where she was. I thought 638 00:45:39,778 --> 00:45:42,990 if this happens to my daughter, How will I survive this? 639 00:45:48,287 --> 00:45:49,913 But no one listened to me. 640 00:45:50,038 --> 00:45:52,416 I said that I saw destroyed vaginas, 641 00:45:52,499 --> 00:45:55,836 but everyone thought I was crazy. 642 00:45:55,919 --> 00:45:58,964 They made fun of me. 643 00:46:00,048 --> 00:46:01,842 I was thinking about leaving the Congo. 644 00:46:02,009 --> 00:46:05,679 I have friends abroad. I could work as a gynecologist there. 645 00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:10,350 What's the point of me continuing? if no one understands me? 646 00:46:11,769 --> 00:46:16,648 All my life when I didn't know what to do... 647 00:46:18,692 --> 00:46:21,570 If everything is God's will, 648 00:46:22,070 --> 00:46:24,656 then he's a little bit opened the door for me. 649 00:46:24,948 --> 00:46:26,784 And it was just such a door. 650 00:46:28,118 --> 00:46:30,579 I remember it very well. 651 00:46:31,079 --> 00:46:32,456 It was Saturday. 652 00:46:34,792 --> 00:46:36,460 Eve arrived at the hospital, 653 00:46:37,127 --> 00:46:41,757 and after lunch we asked women about their destinies. 654 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,009 Then we started dancing. 655 00:46:56,563 --> 00:46:58,690 And every woman, or group of women, 656 00:46:58,774 --> 00:47:04,321 danced in the style of her village, of your tribe. 657 00:47:12,246 --> 00:47:17,292 I felt like this dance relaxes us to a great extent. 658 00:47:20,504 --> 00:47:22,172 It was incredible! 659 00:47:24,007 --> 00:47:26,969 It was like some kind of a powerful form of therapy. 660 00:47:27,553 --> 00:47:29,680 Because for the first time 661 00:47:30,013 --> 00:47:32,266 all this time 662 00:47:32,766 --> 00:47:34,309 I came home... 663 00:47:35,310 --> 00:47:37,479 and fell into a deep sleep. 664 00:47:39,022 --> 00:47:40,148 I had a great night's sleep. 665 00:47:42,442 --> 00:47:45,028 For the first time in a long time I fell asleep 666 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,155 and slept like a baby. 667 00:47:52,744 --> 00:47:56,957 I realized that all is not lost. It was a revelation 668 00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,543 what should I continue to work further. 669 00:48:02,546 --> 00:48:06,633 After all, if these women demonstrate such inner strength 670 00:48:07,426 --> 00:48:10,053 then I have to help them fight. That's all. 671 00:48:14,391 --> 00:48:15,559 Even though it's your father, 672 00:48:16,602 --> 00:48:18,145 or uncle, 673 00:48:18,979 --> 00:48:20,480 cousin, 674 00:48:22,149 --> 00:48:22,983 or native... 675 00:48:23,066 --> 00:48:25,319 SELF DEFENSE INSTRUCTOR WINNIE ANYANGO 676 00:48:25,402 --> 00:48:27,237 or a teacher at school... 677 00:48:27,446 --> 00:48:29,948 - Or a shepherd! - ...or the shepherd! 678 00:48:32,367 --> 00:48:36,204 There's no reason to hide it! 679 00:48:36,288 --> 00:48:39,583 - What can’t be done? - You can't be afraid! 680 00:48:39,666 --> 00:48:42,920 We need to talk about what did they do to you" 681 00:48:43,086 --> 00:48:46,882 We need to talk about this so this doesn't happen to others! 682 00:48:46,965 --> 00:48:47,799 Yes! 683 00:48:59,937 --> 00:49:03,231 I remember that I was visiting my uncle, I was sleeping. 684 00:49:03,774 --> 00:49:04,900 They took everyone away... 685 00:49:08,820 --> 00:49:09,780 taken to the forest. 686 00:49:11,615 --> 00:49:13,492 My uncle's genitals were cut off... 687 00:49:13,575 --> 00:49:14,409 JANE 688 00:49:14,493 --> 00:49:16,578 then arms and legs. 689 00:49:16,870 --> 00:49:19,498 His eyes were gouged out and he was left to die. 690 00:49:20,999 --> 00:49:23,835 Then I was raped 691 00:49:24,169 --> 00:49:26,755 and left tied to a tree. 692 00:49:27,339 --> 00:49:30,175 I was tied to this tree almost two months. 693 00:49:30,258 --> 00:49:31,551 My hands are swollen. 694 00:49:33,553 --> 00:49:35,764 They cut down my uncle 695 00:49:36,306 --> 00:49:38,392 and his body fell on me. 696 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,436 They left me like that. 697 00:49:41,645 --> 00:49:43,897 I couldn't move. 698 00:49:49,111 --> 00:49:52,990 By the time how good soldiers discovered us, 699 00:49:53,573 --> 00:49:57,744 three of us were already dead. 700 00:49:57,953 --> 00:50:01,581 I was two months pregnant. 701 00:50:02,499 --> 00:50:09,464 They took me from there. I was very weak... 702 00:50:11,758 --> 00:50:14,302 When I got home there was no one there. 703 00:50:14,928 --> 00:50:17,431 I couldn't sleep because of terrible nightmares. 704 00:50:17,514 --> 00:50:19,057 I was so scared. 705 00:50:21,476 --> 00:50:25,355 Seven months pregnant the bandits kidnapped me again. 706 00:50:26,189 --> 00:50:31,611 They hit Pena in the stomach flat side of the machete blade. 707 00:50:31,945 --> 00:50:34,072 My water broke and I gave birth right there. 708 00:50:34,448 --> 00:50:38,160 They helped me give birth 709 00:50:38,243 --> 00:50:41,371 but in the process they broke my pelvic bones. 710 00:50:43,248 --> 00:50:45,625 I gave birth already decaying child's corpse. 711 00:50:48,003 --> 00:50:52,966 When I walked, I dragged my feet. 712 00:50:53,383 --> 00:50:56,928 My stomach continued to swell. 713 00:50:57,387 --> 00:51:01,391 The remains of the child continued decay inside me 714 00:51:01,475 --> 00:51:03,268 and never came out. 715 00:51:03,435 --> 00:51:05,687 I constantly felt terrible pain. 716 00:51:07,981 --> 00:51:12,319 When I returned The neighbors took me in. 717 00:51:12,402 --> 00:51:17,240 My breath smelled terrible and from the genitals. 718 00:51:18,241 --> 00:51:20,285 In church, my neighbors heard 719 00:51:20,368 --> 00:51:23,872 that people on a helicopter are looking for people like that, like me, suffering. 720 00:51:24,539 --> 00:51:29,086 They were afraid to lift me up 721 00:51:30,045 --> 00:51:34,674 My body was already starting to rot. 722 00:51:36,301 --> 00:51:42,224 In the end, they managed to put me down into a large basket. 723 00:51:42,849 --> 00:51:47,979 I was put in this basket and one of the men carried me on his back. 724 00:51:48,563 --> 00:51:51,650 That's how I got to the airport. 725 00:51:57,531 --> 00:51:59,491 When Jane was taken to the hospital, 726 00:51:59,574 --> 00:52:02,202 we were sure that she would not survive. 727 00:52:06,706 --> 00:52:11,211 On the day of my arrival in Panzi I was unconscious. 728 00:52:11,753 --> 00:52:15,048 I could hear, but I couldn't speak. 729 00:52:25,267 --> 00:52:27,435 I spent seven years there. 730 00:52:32,732 --> 00:52:36,736 She's one of the women whom they tried to break in the physical, 731 00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:38,530 morally and spiritually... 732 00:52:40,198 --> 00:52:42,909 Despite all this, she had the strength to say: 733 00:52:42,993 --> 00:52:45,745 “We will survive. We owe it to others to survive." 734 00:52:52,294 --> 00:52:53,795 We love each other 735 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:56,339 because we have all experienced pain, 736 00:52:57,174 --> 00:52:59,342 and it connects us all. 737 00:52:59,885 --> 00:53:03,305 I couldn't even think that I would find myself in such a center. 738 00:53:04,181 --> 00:53:07,392 Our native villages ceased to be home for us. 739 00:53:07,934 --> 00:53:13,190 We have forgotten so much. I didn't even remember how old I was. 740 00:53:13,648 --> 00:53:15,442 They asked me where I was born. 741 00:53:15,525 --> 00:53:17,652 I didn't know. My head was empty. 742 00:53:17,819 --> 00:53:23,617 When the violence came everything was destroyed. 743 00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:26,494 She has no children, no family, she is alone, 744 00:53:26,828 --> 00:53:30,040 but she always fought for others. 745 00:53:30,332 --> 00:53:34,336 I think this love and willingness to fight for others, 746 00:53:34,502 --> 00:53:37,505 even when everything in your life completely destroyed... 747 00:53:38,215 --> 00:53:42,802 I think this is the symbol struggle of Congolese women. 748 00:53:45,597 --> 00:53:47,849 When Jane spoke today, 749 00:53:47,933 --> 00:53:50,018 The strength of a leader was visible in her, right? 750 00:53:50,101 --> 00:53:52,020 The way she came to the very center. 751 00:53:53,188 --> 00:53:55,482 Each of you will come to this center, 752 00:53:55,565 --> 00:53:57,901 and show your voice, your story. 753 00:53:57,984 --> 00:54:01,238 Without even hearing her words, the strength in her movements is visible. 754 00:54:01,321 --> 00:54:04,199 We don't want you to walk around like this. 755 00:54:06,326 --> 00:54:08,536 A woman should walk like this, right? 756 00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:15,585 When she talks, you listen, right? 757 00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:16,962 Why are you listening? 758 00:54:17,045 --> 00:54:19,506 Because she knows how to take up space. 759 00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:21,508 She is confident in her right to life, 760 00:54:21,591 --> 00:54:25,345 after all, everything that she experienced gives her the right 761 00:54:25,428 --> 00:54:27,597 live your whole life like this, as she wants. 762 00:54:27,681 --> 00:54:29,391 Get up. Come on, stand up. 763 00:54:29,766 --> 00:54:32,435 Well? Yes. Take up space. 764 00:54:32,727 --> 00:54:35,188 Take a step forward and take up space. 765 00:54:35,272 --> 00:54:36,523 Come on, step forward. Take up space! 766 00:54:39,776 --> 00:54:40,610 Well done! 767 00:54:41,528 --> 00:54:42,612 Now... one more time! 768 00:54:42,737 --> 00:54:45,031 Step forward! Let's take up space! 769 00:55:21,151 --> 00:55:22,319 She is a heroine. 770 00:55:22,819 --> 00:55:25,030 I'll tell my story, you tell yours, 771 00:55:25,113 --> 00:55:27,490 After everything we have experienced, there is life. 772 00:55:28,033 --> 00:55:31,202 Most women people who come to our center say: 773 00:55:31,286 --> 00:55:34,539 “What should we do?” Or: “This is a tragedy, what should I do?” 774 00:55:34,622 --> 00:55:35,582 And Jane responded: 775 00:55:36,416 --> 00:55:38,585 “Is this all you’ve been through? 776 00:55:39,461 --> 00:55:40,962 Okay, let's not compare. 777 00:55:41,046 --> 00:55:42,714 Want to know my story? 778 00:55:43,214 --> 00:55:44,883 Want to hear about me? 779 00:55:44,966 --> 00:55:47,135 Do you want me to show you my vagina? 780 00:55:47,302 --> 00:55:49,179 I don't even have a vagina anymore, 781 00:55:49,262 --> 00:55:51,389 just a big hole. Want to see? 782 00:55:51,931 --> 00:55:54,184 What are you whining about? This is what Jane is all about. 783 00:55:54,934 --> 00:55:56,269 She's like a ray of light. 784 00:55:56,478 --> 00:55:58,730 Her joy is contagious. 785 00:55:59,439 --> 00:56:01,733 She is our joy our ray of light is here... 786 00:56:02,817 --> 00:56:04,069 in our center. 787 00:56:06,821 --> 00:56:07,947 What do I feel? 788 00:56:10,325 --> 00:56:11,576 I feel 789 00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:14,704 that I'm no longer afraid. 790 00:56:15,789 --> 00:56:19,417 What I've been through 791 00:56:20,210 --> 00:56:22,128 brought me so much pain... 792 00:56:25,048 --> 00:56:28,385 Now I know I'm not alone in this 793 00:56:28,843 --> 00:56:31,638 I almost killed myself for no reason. 794 00:56:33,431 --> 00:56:34,474 These are my sisters. 795 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,936 I love them all... 796 00:56:39,312 --> 00:56:42,023 I learned to accept myself as I am what I am. 797 00:56:43,691 --> 00:56:44,526 I learned. 798 00:56:56,329 --> 00:56:59,416 Violence in Congo I don't call it violence. 799 00:56:59,499 --> 00:57:02,585 To me it's like sexual terrorism. 800 00:57:05,964 --> 00:57:08,758 Women are the backbone of the family. 801 00:57:08,842 --> 00:57:11,719 They take care of children, give birth, and so on. 802 00:57:11,803 --> 00:57:14,097 Destroy women means destroying society. 803 00:57:20,145 --> 00:57:23,398 Ten men can't rape one woman 804 00:57:23,690 --> 00:57:26,025 if he has something to lose in life. 805 00:57:32,740 --> 00:57:34,534 This is the generation living now. 806 00:57:35,368 --> 00:57:36,578 This is a disaster... 807 00:57:45,211 --> 00:57:48,756 child, seeing his mother suffer, 808 00:57:49,799 --> 00:57:51,801 caused by a stranger, 809 00:57:53,136 --> 00:57:56,848 think can he become a normal child? 810 00:57:58,224 --> 00:58:00,935 Could he respect someone else's mother? 811 00:58:01,519 --> 00:58:02,645 This child... 812 00:58:03,396 --> 00:58:07,442 will he respect other people's lives, knowing that he is an orphan 813 00:58:07,984 --> 00:58:11,196 because his father was killed before his eyes, 814 00:58:11,362 --> 00:58:14,282 and his mother was raped in the same room? 815 00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:18,745 Do you think that when you become an adult, will this child respect other people's lives? 816 00:58:19,662 --> 00:58:21,289 Respect other women? 817 00:58:22,582 --> 00:58:23,833 Respect other people? 818 00:58:29,881 --> 00:58:32,717 SEPTEMBER 2012 UN - NEW YORK 819 00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,678 It is with deep humility that I declare, 820 00:58:36,346 --> 00:58:41,643 that the international community demonstrates fear and indecisiveness 821 00:58:41,809 --> 00:58:44,938 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last 16 years. 822 00:58:45,104 --> 00:58:48,316 Urgent action needs to be taken 823 00:58:48,900 --> 00:58:54,364 and stop these crimes against humanity, achieve justice. 824 00:58:54,906 --> 00:58:57,242 Justice must prevail. 825 00:58:57,951 --> 00:59:00,620 On the evening of October 25 826 00:59:00,703 --> 00:59:03,540 I was returning from New York and Geneva, 827 00:59:03,623 --> 00:59:07,585 where I tried to defend my rights Congolese women. 828 00:59:12,549 --> 00:59:15,343 Upon return from this long mission, 829 00:59:17,845 --> 00:59:19,013 I came home 830 00:59:19,222 --> 00:59:22,267 where armed people were waiting for me. 831 00:59:22,350 --> 00:59:26,187 They took my daughters hostage and niece. 832 00:59:27,313 --> 00:59:30,400 My children were hostages 833 00:59:30,483 --> 00:59:34,445 the armed men have had it for 20 minutes. 834 00:59:35,863 --> 00:59:37,407 Dr. Mukwege was my neighbor. 835 00:59:37,490 --> 00:59:39,909 When I entered the house, then I heard shots. 836 00:59:40,159 --> 00:59:41,953 I thought it was in my garden. 837 00:59:42,036 --> 00:59:45,957 Suddenly I saw one of my nephews Dr. Mukwege. 838 00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:47,333 He ran into my house 839 00:59:47,667 --> 00:59:50,628 and shouted: “Dr. Mukwege... there’s blood all over there.” 840 00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:53,214 I just asked, “Is Dr. Mukwege alive?” 841 00:59:53,298 --> 00:59:56,342 I had already said goodbye to life. 842 00:59:56,426 --> 00:59:57,468 I stood there 843 00:59:58,428 --> 01:00:01,639 and saw how a man turns around with a weapon... 844 01:00:02,390 --> 01:00:03,975 then he fired. 845 01:00:05,018 --> 01:00:06,936 I fell over there. 846 01:00:07,729 --> 01:00:09,480 They wanted to kill me 847 01:00:10,481 --> 01:00:12,483 but I was saved. Unfortunately, 848 01:00:13,109 --> 01:00:15,486 the man who protected me, 849 01:00:16,070 --> 01:00:19,115 was shot to death. 850 01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:25,663 Three days later 851 01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,166 I realized that for my family 852 01:00:28,249 --> 01:00:31,628 it's very difficult to continue living in such conditions. 853 01:00:32,170 --> 01:00:33,338 We left. 854 01:00:48,519 --> 01:00:52,190 Two months later they started to come to me letters from women. 855 01:00:52,273 --> 01:00:56,027 They asked: “Come back, we will protect you.” 856 01:00:56,235 --> 01:00:58,237 At that time I thought: 857 01:00:58,321 --> 01:01:02,075 "It's very brave, but it won't help against armed men." 858 01:01:03,034 --> 01:01:08,998 But then the women decided bring tomatoes, 859 01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:16,255 pineapples, sell your harvest, 860 01:01:16,631 --> 01:01:19,425 to pay for my ticket to the Congo. 861 01:01:20,051 --> 01:01:25,014 These women live less than one dollar a day. 862 01:01:25,932 --> 01:01:30,061 I was simply unable to refuse. 863 01:01:30,269 --> 01:01:33,064 JANUARY 14, 2013 864 01:01:46,327 --> 01:01:50,415 DOCTOR MUKWEGE'S MOTHER 865 01:02:03,177 --> 01:02:04,887 I've never seen anything like it. 866 01:02:05,596 --> 01:02:08,141 It wasn't prepared it just happened naturally. 867 01:02:08,224 --> 01:02:10,685 The day before, people from Panzi came, 868 01:02:10,768 --> 01:02:12,145 They asked me: 869 01:02:12,228 --> 01:02:14,355 "Mom Christine, please help, 870 01:02:14,439 --> 01:02:16,274 rent three buses for us. 871 01:02:16,774 --> 01:02:20,194 We want to go to the airport to meet our doctor." 872 01:02:37,128 --> 01:02:43,384 Your presence is here means a lot. 873 01:02:45,178 --> 01:02:46,012 Today 874 01:02:46,095 --> 01:02:51,559 we all rose up together against sexual violence. 875 01:02:53,269 --> 01:02:55,271 Dr. Mukwege has lost his freedom. 876 01:02:55,855 --> 01:02:59,400 Nobody investigated that murder attempt. 877 01:02:59,484 --> 01:03:00,860 We don't know who it was. 878 01:03:01,068 --> 01:03:02,612 He lives like in prison. 879 01:03:02,695 --> 01:03:05,281 He is surrounded by seven bodyguards. 880 01:03:05,364 --> 01:03:07,575 He doesn’t go anywhere except our center. 881 01:03:07,658 --> 01:03:11,204 From the center to the hospital. Again to the center, then to the hospital. 882 01:03:11,579 --> 01:03:14,499 But he did it for the sake of Congolese women, therefore 883 01:03:14,582 --> 01:03:17,585 all women in Congo he is deeply respected. 884 01:04:00,711 --> 01:04:02,171 I'm constantly in danger. 885 01:04:02,463 --> 01:04:04,799 Something can happen at any moment. 886 01:04:06,008 --> 01:04:07,844 I received death threats. 887 01:04:08,970 --> 01:04:10,930 I changed my lifestyle. 888 01:04:11,639 --> 01:04:13,850 Moved from my home to the hospital. 889 01:04:20,314 --> 01:04:22,733 I'm glad Dr. Mukwege decided to stay, 890 01:04:22,817 --> 01:04:25,152 because I couldn’t live anywhere else. 891 01:04:25,528 --> 01:04:29,365 I can't imagine myself living in Belgium or Switzerland, 892 01:04:29,448 --> 01:04:32,702 working in the office all day, all this stress. 893 01:04:32,785 --> 01:04:35,580 It's better to have stress here than stress in Europe. 894 01:04:39,292 --> 01:04:43,296 From today I stop meaningless existence... 895 01:04:43,671 --> 01:04:46,382 Tomorrow I want to become a leader help others. 896 01:04:46,465 --> 01:04:51,971 I gave birth to a girl and hated the child terribly. 897 01:04:52,513 --> 01:04:55,308 Looking at her, I remembered what I've been through. 898 01:04:55,558 --> 01:05:00,062 Twice I tried to commit suicide. I was very unhappy. 899 01:05:00,146 --> 01:05:02,189 Now my daughter is 8 years old. 900 01:05:02,273 --> 01:05:05,443 I love her endlessly. 901 01:05:05,610 --> 01:05:08,237 I asked her for forgiveness. 902 01:05:08,321 --> 01:05:09,822 This is the essence of my story. 903 01:05:10,031 --> 01:05:12,116 I was very afraid 904 01:05:12,533 --> 01:05:15,161 but now my fear has disappeared. 905 01:05:15,620 --> 01:05:19,040 I will return to my village 906 01:05:19,165 --> 01:05:21,959 and teach others how to live without fear. 907 01:05:28,049 --> 01:05:30,885 Let's do this: someone lies down on the floor. 908 01:05:30,968 --> 01:05:32,094 Lay your head here. 909 01:05:38,309 --> 01:05:40,311 It's called the “Game of Laughter.” 910 01:05:41,145 --> 01:05:42,647 Let's play and laugh, do you hear? 911 01:05:43,105 --> 01:05:45,316 When you feel someone else's laughter, 912 01:05:45,691 --> 01:05:46,817 start laughing. 913 01:05:46,901 --> 01:05:50,112 But only when you feel laughing in the stomach under the head, 914 01:05:50,196 --> 01:05:51,322 not before. 915 01:06:50,256 --> 01:06:52,842 I tell Mama Christine, that I don’t want to leave. 916 01:06:52,925 --> 01:06:56,887 But we need to leave so that we can help others. 917 01:07:14,488 --> 01:07:16,991 I was preparing for this 918 01:07:17,158 --> 01:07:19,035 because today our children are leaving, 919 01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:22,621 they move on to the next stage. 920 01:07:22,997 --> 01:07:25,541 They were like daughters to us 921 01:07:25,624 --> 01:07:28,711 I hope that everything in their life will be fine. 922 01:07:40,639 --> 01:07:43,392 When I was here with the girls 923 01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:46,020 and saw that they survived and now they are happy, it helped me take care of myself, 924 01:07:48,856 --> 01:07:50,983 after all, many are counting on me. 925 01:07:51,067 --> 01:07:54,320 So I'm alive and well thanks to them. 926 01:07:54,403 --> 01:07:57,531 I get angry seeing beautiful women 927 01:07:57,615 --> 01:07:59,200 raped 928 01:07:59,283 --> 01:08:02,119 and I get angry when I see that the world 929 01:08:02,203 --> 01:08:04,580 I don't care about this violence. 930 01:08:04,663 --> 01:08:08,417 You know what we suffer in this nightmare of violence. 931 01:08:08,501 --> 01:08:11,962 What have we been through? We women? 932 01:08:12,421 --> 01:08:14,131 The violence happening here 933 01:08:14,215 --> 01:08:16,967 I blame the President of the Congo for this 934 01:08:17,259 --> 01:08:19,470 and the President of the United States. 935 01:08:19,887 --> 01:08:21,889 They have everything they need 936 01:08:22,681 --> 01:08:26,310 to stop the war in the Congo. 937 01:08:27,061 --> 01:08:31,982 Rwanda, Tanzania, China, President of Congo, 938 01:08:32,191 --> 01:08:36,362 South Africa, Uganda, USA, 939 01:08:36,570 --> 01:08:39,323 Belgium, Germany, France, 940 01:08:39,573 --> 01:08:41,408 Canada and England: 941 01:08:41,492 --> 01:08:45,454 all these countries It should be very embarrassing. 942 01:09:11,230 --> 01:09:13,524 The motto of our center is: 943 01:09:13,732 --> 01:09:16,986 turn pain into strength. 944 01:09:20,698 --> 01:09:26,537 These girls who have been through so much must become leaders in their villages. 945 01:09:28,831 --> 01:09:32,084 It will take time, but we believe in them. 946 01:09:33,878 --> 01:09:37,673 We have to stop this. Violence as a tactic of war. 947 01:09:37,882 --> 01:09:40,301 Stop inhuman violence... 948 01:09:40,843 --> 01:09:45,181 it is destroying our society, destroys us all... 949 01:09:48,058 --> 01:09:53,022 This is impossible. This is unacceptable. This is unthinkable! 950 01:10:06,660 --> 01:10:08,662 WELCOME TO THE “CITY OF JOY” 951 01:10:08,746 --> 01:10:11,874 One little girl survived the massacre. 952 01:10:11,957 --> 01:10:13,375 She is only four years old. 953 01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:15,794 I practically adopted her. 954 01:10:16,629 --> 01:10:17,755 One day she said: 955 01:10:18,547 --> 01:10:20,507 “Mom Christine, you are so lucky. 956 01:10:21,342 --> 01:10:24,553 You have long legs!” At first I didn't understand what she was talking about. 957 01:10:25,429 --> 01:10:27,932 She says: “Yes, you can run fast. 958 01:10:28,432 --> 01:10:29,642 They wouldn’t have caught up with you.” 959 01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:36,190 Everything they can dream of now Congolese children, 960 01:10:36,607 --> 01:10:39,401 it's about long legs to run away. 961 01:10:40,319 --> 01:10:42,112 To run away very quickly. 962 01:10:42,947 --> 01:10:44,156 So that they don't get caught up. 963 01:11:00,673 --> 01:11:04,718 LET'S TURN PAIN INTO POWER 964 01:11:23,696 --> 01:11:28,617 Having completed training at the center, Zawadi began working as a defender 965 01:11:28,701 --> 01:11:32,830 victims of gender-based violence. 966 01:11:34,707 --> 01:11:38,877 Jackie founded collective farms in eastern Congo 967 01:11:38,961 --> 01:11:42,673 and helps with center security. 968 01:11:45,092 --> 01:11:52,057 Sandra recently graduated from school and is studying to become a nurse. 969 01:11:55,561 --> 01:11:59,023 Russo left the center and became director 970 01:11:59,106 --> 01:12:03,986 nursing homes for women those who lost their families. 971 01:12:05,571 --> 01:12:09,658 Tulizo worked with children, orphaned as a result of the war, 972 01:12:09,742 --> 01:12:13,454 and she recently finished studying for a hairdresser-fashion designer. 973 01:12:16,081 --> 01:12:22,921 Jane works as a social worker and the leader in the center. 974 01:12:27,301 --> 01:12:34,099 Every year the center trains 180 women.