1: What I’ve learned about the War from reading Ruined Background Information and Context PowerPoint is that they used young children as soldiers and rape as a weapon. They used women to fear them, as they killed their family and physically abused them. There would be groups of men physically and mentally abusing women to their advantage. They would catch diseases due to rape, under the age of 18. The children soldiers were recruited under the age of 18 and forced to fight. Many of them were killed. In Ruined, the Lendu Tribe and the Hema tribe are fighting over the battle for land and resources. As shown in the YouTube video, it stated that land could be bought and seized in two years, yet the Hema Tribe stole land from the Lendu Tribe, which caused a war between them. The natural resources they both were fighting over were diamonds, cobalt, and copper. Also stated in the video, the Lendu tribe associated with the Hutu Tribe of Rwanda and the Hema associated with the Tutsi, which were main tribes of the Rwanda Genocide. This led to the Congo civil war in 1994-1998. …show more content…
They beat the women for power and the men were brainwashed to do as they please. Armed groups use rape until they are satisfied and because of commandant; due to this they rape to eat and for satisfaction. Stated in the video, the man said raping and stealing would reduce our stress because they needed it. They destroy their women hood and dignity. There is no education in DRC to educate people more on theses conflicts and tragedies they are going through especially how they treat women and