Why Women Fight to Kill in the World’s most “Forgotton” Crisis

(Newsweek) – Melvia wants to make something very clear: She joined the rebels to kill—not to boil manioc or perform other chores usually dumped on women. She wanted to fight back against the men who attacked her village in the Central African Republic, torched her home and killed her grandmother. “I didn’t join the group to cook,” she says. “I wanted to do the hard work.”

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