I would encourage all of you guys to take a minute and read the story that the picture is from.
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BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo -- The first time you see Sifa Cizungu, you'd think she was in her late '20s, maybe her early '30s.
Two years ago she was kidnapped from her village and dragged into the bush by rebel fighters who hide in patches of jungle.
Held captive for three months, she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by 13 men.
She's one of tens of thousands of women who have been raped by armed forces here in the eastern Congo, an area between the DRC and Rwanda in constant political flux.
Cizungu finally managed to escape on foot after she was sent to haul water.
"I don't care about men. They could take me by force again," she says, recounting her experience in the bush. "I started bleeding and smelling.
"There were maggots coming out of me."
She says she accepts that no man will likely want to marry her, now.
Her grandmother, taken by the same men, was beaten to death in front of her on a road.
Sifa is 14 years old.
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It's easy to sit here and cast judgement about someone but who has the courage to face what she's faced or to try to do something about it?