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According to victims, one of the newest groups to emerge is called the Rastas, a mysterious gang of dreadlocked fugitives who live deep in the forest, wear shiny tracksuits and Los Angeles Lakers jerseys and are notorious for BURNING BABIES [emphasis added by yours truly], kidnapping women and literally chopping up anybody who gets in their way.

United Nations officials said the so-called Rastas were once part of the Hutu militias who fled Rwanda after committing genocide there in 1994, but now it seems they have split off on their own and specialize in freelance cruelty.

Honorata Barinjibanwa, an 18-year-old woman with high cheekbones and downcast eyes, said she was kidnapped from a village that the Rastas raided in April and kept as a sex slave until August. Most of that time she was tied to a tree, and she still has rope marks ringing her delicate neck. The men would untie her for a few hours each day to gang-rape her, she said.

"I'm weak, I'm angry, and I don't know how to restart my life," she said from Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where she was taken after her captors freed her.

She is also pregnant.

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Source: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/07/africa-rape-epidemic.html

Weird how this Boing Boing Dot Net calls itself a directory of wonderful things and talks about African serial rapists all of the sudden.

Does anybody know about this stuff that's going on with the Rastas in the Democratic Republic of Congo?  Of all epidemics I've heard of this seems to be one of the most ridiculous and sick ones I've seen.  Who knows more information about this group of wandering rapists?

Guess why the Rastas wear tracksuits and Los Angeles Lakers (I've already deduced the answer).  Seriously.

Post edited at 9:02 am on July 6, 2008 by Avenue D

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Rastafarians are suppose to be chill

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Haha, these are not the Rastafarians that we know and love, who love and worship the former king of Ethiopia, Haille Sellaisse and smoke dope all the time while listening to Bob Marley records.  These are the Rastas, the serial rapists of central Africa.

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Quote: from iinsurgent at 9:01 am on July 6, 2008

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Rastafarians are suppose to be chill

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Haha, these are not the Rastafarians that we know and love, who love and worship the former king of Ethiopia, Haille Sellaisse and smoke dope all the time while listening to Bob Marley records. These are the Rastas, the serial rapists of central Africa.

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Women in Africa have it the worse. It's so depressing, I was reading an article about the genocide in Darfur, and these group of men would shoot the women in the vagina after gang raping them.  

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This is The New York Times version of that story from last October.

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Thanks, that helped to shed more light on the situation to me.  How much exactly is being done about this rape epidemic anyway?  I mean 70% of the girls in one town being raped?  This is even worse than the Darfur Crisis.

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