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JOLIE-WHY I HELP VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Angelina Jolie explains, in raw and unscripted language, how accumulating encounters with survivors of sexual violence — and the near-total absence of accountability — made continued silence impossible.

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I meet a girl that's been gang raped by 15 men with pipes and pieces of wood and she's had fistula and she's had to be sewn back together and she's a child and nobody's going to be held accountable.

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Angelina Jolie explains what drives her to help victims of sexual violence. She describes being moved by repeated encounters with survivors — girls, boys, women, and men — who could discuss other suffering publicly but privately broke down when describing rape. She recounts meeting a young girl gang-raped by 15 men with pipes and pieces of wood, left with fistula and surgically reconstructed, with no one held accountable. Jolie says the accumulating weight of these meetings, combined with learning how little had been done legally on victims' behalf and how few perpetrators had been convicted, compelled her to act.

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  1. Survivors would speak publicly about many pains but privately broke down when describing rape, carrying deep shame they could not share.

  2. Jolie describes meeting a girl gang-raped by 15 men using pipes and pieces of wood, who suffered fistula and had to be surgically reconstructed.

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I meet a girl that's been gang raped by 15 men with pipes and pieces of wood and she's had fistula and she's had to be sewn back together and she's a child and nobody's going to be held accountable.

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Angelina Jolie gives a single case to show the extremity of violence and the total absence of accountability that broke her.

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They could talk about all of their pains publicly — but privately would become very emotional and tell me about the rape.

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The contrast between public endurance and private confession reveals how deeply stigma forces survivors to hide their worst trauma.

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They carried this deep shame and this deep pain and it was just too many — it was just one too many.

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Jolie explains the cumulative emotional tipping point that compelled her to move from witness to advocate.

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The more I would learn about what had been done on their behalf and who had been convicted — it was just pitiful, it was nothing.

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The gap between what was done to survivors and what justice delivered is named as the engine of Jolie's outrage.

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You are moved by someone you meet — and for me it was again and again meeting young girls, boys, women and men who simply couldn't function anymore.

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Jolie identifies repeated personal encounters with broken survivors as the direct cause of her own commitment to act.

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