Saturday, April 2, 2011

CHANNEL 4 - Unreported World: Congo The Children Who Came Back from the Dead

CHANNEL 4 - Unreported World: Congo The Children Who Came Back from the Dead WS PDTV XviD-FTP
English | 00:23:58 | Xvid | 624x352 | 25.00fps 1216 Kbps | MP3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 232MB
Genre: Documentary

Unreported World travels to eastern Congo to witness the remarkable work of one man who liberates the child soldiers who have been forced to fight in one of the world's longest running conflicts.

While they are fortunate enough to film the moments several dozen youngsters are released, the team also discovers that hundreds more are being abducted as rebels and the army prepare for a new round of fighting.

Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Ed Braman are in the mountainous and densely forested province of North Kivu with Henri Ladyi. He has been invited to a secret meeting with members of the ADF/NALU rebel group who are hiding out in the hills.

They have been told by a member of the group there are lots of child soldiers - many of them forcibly recruited - who need clothes and medicine. And there is an opportunity for Henri to see if he can get them released.

In a remarkable scene, around a dozen children suddenly appear out of the undergrowth. They are armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows. Some of them are extremely young: perhaps not even teenagers.

The team films some tense negotiations before one of the rebel commanders begins a bizarre ritual. The children are each slapped and punched, but Henri tells Hartley that this is a good sign as it is a way of ensuring that the children leave behind their lives as soldiers.

The team accompanies Henri and the children to the town of Beni. It's the first night in some time they have spent away from the forest, in a proper bed, with a change of clothes.

The youngest tells Hartley his fighter's name is Kambale but he thinks his real name is Justin, although he doesn't seem sure. He says that he was born in the forest and grew up living with the rebels, who are on the run and who are being hunted down by the government army, and that this is the only life he has known.

But even as Henri is liberating child soldiers near Beni, it appears that rebels elsewhere in North Kivu are on an aggressive recruitment drive. One local tells Hartley that in Massisi 150 boys have disappeared and in his own area 80 boys have gone missing. He claims one boy was shot and killed for refusing to join up.

The team drives to Kitchanga. When they arrive they find the schools deserted. One teacher tells Hartley that between 150 and 200 students have just vanished over the past few weeks.

The team accompanies Henri to another tense and dangerous meeting with a rebel army called the Mayi Mayi. After several weeks of negotiations, Henri has persuaded them to give up a group of their child soldiers. The Mayi Mayi are one of the most fearsome of Congo's rebel groups, hostile to the government and with a taste for magic.

Henri leads the team into the hills near the town of Butembo, where they wait nervously. After a while 14 children emerge, including two little girls: Edwige and 11-year-old Marve.

They tell Hartley that the rebels think that child soldiers give them a special magical power. Some of them are given the job of doctors while others are told to cast spells on stones, which they then throw in battle to explode like grenades.

Hartley and Braman return to the villages where the released children are trying to fit back in to their former lives. They find Marve with her grandmother, who says she plans for the girl to join the family business as a seamstress.

But Justin is still subdued and withdrawn. He says all he wants to do is play football with other kids in the village. Just as they are leaving, the team are able to film Justin finally invited to do just that.



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