Over 150 Women Raped and Burned Alive in a Congo Prison—It Doesn't Make the News.

Grainy video footage, shot from above barbed-wire fencing, captures the frightening chaos — figures scrambling in the gloom, smoke billowing into the overcast sky. Behind the haze and destruction lies an atrocity of staggering brutality.

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and then burned to death on January 27 when male inmates staged a mass jailbreak and set fire to a prison at Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, to join the surging conflict between the government-backed military and the Rwanda-bolstered militia group, M23.

Only between nine and 13 women survived, according to the United Nations Office of Human Rights — each of them also subjected to sexual violence. Prison guards shot some of the escaping inmates. The scene, though horrifying, barely made a ripple in the global news cycle. The same day, the M23 rebels captured Goma, with more than 3,000 lives lost in the process.

The violence and mayhem are deepening. And this wasn’t the first time this happened in recent months…