Henry Wirz, the Confederate commander of Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia, housed Union POWs. The camp, which had been chronically understocked, was in terrible shape. It was constructed to hold 10,000 prisoners, but at its peak in 1864, it held 32,000 POWs, leaving inmates with just six square feet of “living space.” [([[https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/andersonville|History]])] | Henry Wirz, the Confederate commander of Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia, housed Union POWs. The camp, which had been chronically understocked, was in terrible shape. It was constructed to hold 10,000 prisoners, but at its peak in 1864, it held 32,000 POWs, leaving inmates with just six square feet of “living space.” [([[https://www.nps.gov/articles/andersonville-prisoner-of-war-camp-teaching-with-historic-places.htm|NPS]])] |
Child soldiers, cannibalism, and, most notably, mass rape dominated the country's harrowing past toward the end of the twentieth century. These assaults have targeted women of all ages. Women's genitalia have been mutilated in some cases. [([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo|Wikipedia]])] | Child soldiers, cannibalism, and, most notably, mass rape dominated the country's harrowing past toward the end of the twentieth century. These assaults have targeted women of all ages. Rape is a military strategy in the Congo that is not discriminated and is known as the rape capital of the world. Women's genitalia have been mutilated in some cases. [([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo|Wikipedia]])] |