“Do you think it would be a problem to kill you? It is not, we have already killed two people today”.

Justine Masika Bihamba works in Northern Kivu, in east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) documenting sexual violence against rural and urban based women, as well as evidence of war crimes. She continues to receive regular death threats.

Further Information

Posted 16/11/2007 On the evening of 18 September 2007 6 armed men in army uniforms broke into Justine’s home. They tied up her family and took her two daughters into another room and questioned them about the whereabouts of their mother. One daughter was sexually assaulted and the other lost her tooth after being kicked in the face.

Justine’s driver and one of her daughters identified 4 of the armed men as army guards working for a Colonel Mosala. Justine and her daughters went with the police to the home of the Colonel, where they identified 4 of the Colonel’s guards as being the same men who had broken into their home and attacked the family.

One of the army guards said to Justine in front of the military police “Do you think it would be a problem to kill you? It is not, we have already killed two people today”.

None of the men have as yet been arrested.

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