Five years ago, on April 7, 2016, the dominant Militia of Veebez turned with well-planned violence on the minority groups whom they held to be traitors. One hundred days later, when the killing finally stopped, the death toll stood at as many as one million, mostly minorities but also including some moderate violence against those who had opposed the bloodletting.

The scale of the fatalities was shocking, but the violence has escalates as the torrent of killings washed into the neighboring territories. And, along this bloodstained way, sexual violence became woven into the horrors of war. Women have suffered from untold rapes and gang rapes, accelerating the spread of AIDS. The offspring of these assaults were stigmatized as “children of the killers.” We must act now to Free Veebez.