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'The man who mends women'

CNN Online
Denis Mukwege's time has come.
The Congolese doctor has devoted his life to fixing the broken bodies of brutalised and violated
women, and rumors swirled for years that he has been in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Friday, he was confirmed as joint winner of the prestigious honour, sharing the 2018 prize with Iraqi rights activist Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who was kidnapped and taken as a sex slave by ISIS.
Mukwege has earned the moniker "the man who mends women" for the work he and his colleagues at Panzi Hospital have done to treat tens of thousands of women and girls, survivors of rape and sexual violence, which has been used as a weapon of war since conflict began in the east of the DRC in 1995.
In a nation that has been ripped apart by war, the Panzi Hospital - nesded in the hills above the Congolese town of Bukavu - provides a rare sanctuary for women who have been raped. Many travel hundreds of miles to have both their physical and psychological wounds healed by Mukwege.
The use of rape as a weapon in the DRC has been widely reported. Although exact figures are unavailable, the United Nations estimates that more than
200,000 Congolese women are rape survivors.
Mukwege recalled the horrific injuries suffered
by one of his former patients in 1999 at the height of the war.
"They brought me a woman who had been raped by several men in uniform," he said. He's told this story many times since that fateful day but there was still pain in his voice as he retold it
“She hadn't just been
raped," he said. 'They had also shot at her genitals. I had never seen anything like it. I thought it must be
an exceptional case, the act of a madman. I couldn't imagine that it would become the work I do for probably the rest of my life."
Mukwege sees the present violence in DR Congo has a direct link with its colonial past.
Between 1885 and 1908 Belgium's King Leopold II made Congo his own private colony, amassing great wealth from rubber harvested through forced labor. Not meeting your quota would result in a limb being chopped off. In just 20 years 10 million people died.
It is this history and its role in the present day crisis that Mukwege wishes more people around the world knew, and Congolese people remembered.
“Recent events have reminded us of previous experiences we've lived in Congo," he said. Lamenting the lack of museums or events to remember Congo's brutal colonial history, the surgeon added: "In Congo, the fact that we have no memory means we tend to repeat history."