'Here it’s not rape because you have desire for a woman, it’s rape because you want to destroy that person through her private parts. There’s no appropriate expression for it, because if it were men shot by a gun we would call it genocide. But it’s another type of genocide.’

So says Dr Denis Mukwege — also known as the Angel of Bukavu — a Congolese gynaecologist specializing in the reconstructive surgery of Congolese women gang-raped or sexually brutalized.