Autopsy of Sexual Violence

In this book, the author immerses himself in a meticulous analysis of the offences relating to sexual violence in the DRC, from their constitutive element to the legal weaknesses of certain of its provisions. He starts from the origins of these offences in international criminal law from the Nuremberg tribunals to that of Sierra Leone, without leaving out that of Rwanda, to fall into their lame applicability in Congolese positive law. During this journey, the author does not forget to demonstrate, whenever possible, the anachronism of these laws in relation to Congolese cultures, insofar as in certain corners of the republic the application of these laws violates cultural and customary principles, have social facts ceased to precede the law? He wonders about the "copy and paste" not adapted to the Congolese realities. As a solution to this anachronism, the author proposes the need for the tropicalization of the law on sexual violence, which will bring it closer to the habits and customs of the DRC. This would put the agents in charge of the application of the law in a position to repress the acts that