Beyond the Veil | We have good news and bad news about the rape of women in the Congo. The devastating news is that over 150 women were gang-raped in the village of Ruvungi, in North Kivu by members of the FDLR, known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. The women were raped in front of children and family by two to six men, in what represents an alarming escalation in using the rape of women as weapons of war.