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Watch part two
The five-year war in the Democratic Republic of Congo officially ended in 2003, but it continues to be a place of violence, conflicts and humanitarian desaster.
The war was one of the deadliest with some 5.4 million people dying from related violence, hunger and disease.
But there is another chilling statistic that has come to be associated with the conflicts in the DRC: rape.
Estimates vary that between 40,000 and 80,000 women of all ages were raped during the war by members of virtually all army forces operating there.
And the evidence is that sexual violence against women continues to blight this brutalised society even after the war.
Fighting The Silence is a powerful, shocking but also empowering film, that tells the stories of Congolese rape survivors who are trying to change their world.
It gives a unique insight into the lives of ordinary Congolese women and men coping with a society that prefers to blame victims rather than prosecute rapists.
Rageh Omaar talks to Dutch filmmakers Ilse and Femke van Velzen about their award-winning documentary and the issues behind it.
The preview of Fighting the Silence airs from Thursday, May 14, 2009 at the following times GMT: Thursday: 0830 and 1900; Friday: 0330, 1400 and 2330.
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