Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) is speaking at a town hall about violence, economic challenges and other leading problems facing citizens - citizens of a large African country, that is.
Next week, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee will address a town hall, which will be hosted by the Enough Project and the Jewish World Watch, about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The event, which will include experts on the country, will take place Wednesday at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has seen much violence since the end of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, when armed Hutus fled the country at the end of the 100 days of killing. Since then, the DR Congo's government has battled Rwandan-backed militia men, with both sides often using rape as a weapon of war. This week in a mass trial of 39 government soldiers, two soldiers were convicted of rape, with many cleared or convicted on lesser charges in the mass rape of 130 women and girls.
The Californian Democrat has held town halls in the past that have centered on foreign policy. In September, she held a telephone town hall on the possible U.S. military intervention in Syria.
