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"The Empire of Silence": in the heart of darkness, with Thierry Michel

Belgian director Thierry Michel in the RFI studios, March 14, 2022. © Laurent Correau/RFI

By: Sophie Torlotin Follow |

Elisabeth Lequeret Follow

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For twenty-five years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been torn apart by a war largely ignored by the media and the international community.

The victims number in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

The perpetrators of these crimes are innumerable: rebel movements, but also armies, those of Congo and neighboring countries...

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All seem caught up in a dizziness of killings, for power, for money, to monopolize the wealth of the Congo with complete impunity, in general indifference.

Traveling the Congo, camera in hand for thirty years, Thierry Michel has witnessed the fighting, the suffering, but also the hopes of the Congolese people.

Relaying the plea of ​​Doctor Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and in the continuity of his previous film

, it traces the sequences of this merciless violence which has ravaged and ruined the Congo for a quarter of a century.

The poster (detail) of the film "The Empire of Silence", by Thierry Michel.

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