Verbatim transcript from yesterday’s BBC Global News podcast:

The day [Jean-Pierre] Bemba’s troops arrived [in Bossangoa, Central African Republic], I was at home with my husband, our children and my mother. We heard gunshots. They went from house to house. Then soldiers burst through our door. They told my husband to lie down, and then shot him in front of us all.

I fell onto the body of my husband. Then six of them grabbed me and held me down. I was raped where I lay on his corpse. One man tried to cut my throat, but I was struggling so much that he slashed my mouth instead, all the way up to my ear. I have since discovered that I am HIV positive, and now I am alone, with nobody to help me feed my children.