Kisangani Diary

Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover lost refugees They are eighty thousand Hutus from far away Rwanda the last survivors of three years of hunger and armed persecution that transpired throughout the vast Congo basin The Huturefugees leave the forest gathering in two gigantic camps Hundreds of refugees die every day from diseases and malnutrition The Rwandans are promised repatriation with airplanes out of Kisangani The film traces those refugees into the heart of the rainforest and the hopeless attempts to help them But only four weeks later the unprotected UNcamps are again attacked by machinegun fire deliberately massacred by factions of the rebel army AFDL of todays Democratic Republic Congo Eighty thousand men women and children disappear once again back into the jungle jedensvetcz