100 Raped or Beaten in Eastern Congo Attacks Over Two Days, MSF Says
By Michael J. Kavanagh 
 June 23, 2011 
Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-23/100-raped-or-beaten-in-congo-attacks-over-two-days-msf-says.html

More than 100 people were raped or beaten in a series of attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over two days in June, according to Geneva-based Medecins Sans Frontieres, an emergency medical aid group. 
Unknown armed men raided villages about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the town of Fizi in South Kivu province between June 10 and June 12, said Megan Hunter, MSF-Holland’s head of office for the province. 
“Our health centers have registered more than 100 cases of rape and physical abuse,” she said by phone today from Bukavu, the provincial capital. Mineral-rich eastern Congo has suffered more than 15 years of conflict and rape has become common in the struggle between more than a dozen armed groups and the Congolese army. 
On Feb. 21, a South Kivu military court convicted four army officers of ordering the rapes of more than 50 people in Fizi on Jan. 1. The soldiers are appealing. 
To contact the reporter on this story: Michael J. Kavanagh in Kinshasa at mkavanagh9@bloomberg.net.