TW extreme violence - this attack on female prisoners in Congo is the worst thing I have read for a very long time

Whom do you expect to do what, exactly?

There's a force of several thousand UN peacekeepers on the ground there already who have been denied access to Goma by M23. Fairly ineffective as usual.

At the moment it's not even clear who the perpetrators are - other convicts? M23? Other irregular forces? A combination of these? The Congolese Army have a terrible record re VAWG. Does anybody remember the Interahamwe who were responsible for the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, and who M23 are now hunting down?

Suffice to say human life appears to be held in very low regard in much of Africa.

Absolutely, there should be an international outcry. But there won't be, because they are poor, black, female and all the international community cares about is the geopolitics of Congo's rare earth metals

It is absolutely horrific.

Horrific. I don't want to know the details the headline is enough. Those poor women, their children 😢

The world has gone to hell. I can’t believe this happens in some areas, while those who had made progress are going backwards. It’s tragic.

I absolutely agree... just saw it miles down the headlines from that idiot Trump. It really is one of the worst things I've ever seen - and I agree, it's as though their lives were worthless. So awful

Women (especially black women, especially women from the developing world, especially poor and marginalised women) mean absolutely nothing on the global stage. Their lives and hideous deaths mean nothing. It makes me so angry I could scream.

The violence these women endured before their hideous deaths. The tolerance of VAWG and its persistence.

It is an atrocity of multiple, equally appalling dimensions that leave me despairing and bereft of even vaguely knowing how to respond to something on this scale.