{"id":8804,"date":"2010-09-25T11:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/25\/large-scale-rape-incident-in-c\/"},"modified":"2010-09-25T11:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T11:51:22","slug":"large-scale-rape-incident-in-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/large-scale-rape-incident-in-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Scale Rape Incident in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The UN&#8217;s human rights chief has said the &#8220;scale and viciousness&#8221; of mass rapes in DR Congo &#8220;defy belief&#8221;, as a report into the attack was released.<\/p>\n<p>Navi Pillay said that, even for the region, the incident stood out because of the &#8220;extraordinarily cold-blooded and systematic way&#8221; it was carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Some 300 people were raped by armed militia in the attack in August.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-11407180\">Details here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN&#8217;s human rights chief has said the &#8220;scale and viciousness&#8221; of mass rapes in DR Congo &#8220;defy belief&#8221;, as a report into the attack was released. Navi Pillay said that, even for the region, the incident stood out because of the &#8220;extraordinarily cold-blooded and systematic way&#8221; it was carried out. Some 300 people were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/large-scale-rape-incident-in-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Large Scale Rape Incident in Congo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[864,1782,4581,304],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2i0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}