“In her devastating film, Jackson searches for the answer by speaking to the victims, to physicians, and aid workers; to the UN peacekeepers whose numbers are inadequate to the problem; and, finally, to the rapists themselves.”
– Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle, April 5th, 2008
Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 4 million people have died. And there are the uncountable casualties: the many tens of thousands of women and girls who have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army.
The world knows nothing of these women. Their stories have never been told. They suffer and die in silence. In The Greatest Silence these brave women finally speak.
