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It is Shabbat in Goma.  A Shabbat like no other…

Today we visited the rape ward at Heal Africa.  As we entered, we saw 20 women and girls—14 to 60 years old—laying flat on their backs attached to buckets at the base of their beds by a rubber tube.  The stench of the fluids leaving their bodies was potent.  As we entered, the mood was profoundly  somber.  

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