What can the international community do to help protect the women in eastern Congo?

Question

Please watch this video:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4356720n

The UN's most expensive peacekeeping force, MONUC, has already been deployed there for several years, but for some reason they're powerless to stop these horrific things from happening. The DR Congo government can't control its army or the militia. That part of the country is completely lawless. The most brutal rapes imaginable are being systematically used as a weapon of war, to spread terror among comunities.

So many powerful international actors (states, corporations, politicians) are reaping huge profits by exploiting Congo's natural resources, but are doing nothing to protect the people who live there. Most of us in the West are actually benefiting from the Congo's natural resources in some way (e.g. by using products that contain coltan - cell phones, computers, etc.) I wish more people were aware of the situation in hat country. It's a scandal of epic proportions.

Answer 1

bugger all

Answer 2

It's a shame that rape is almost always overlooked by the ruling officials. I say they castrate every rapist. If that fails.... bomb the geurrila forces.