Dancing In The Glory of Monsters

DANCING IN THE GLORY OF MONSTERS

At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Weste
Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and untouchable war in which millions have died.
«Dancing in the Glory of Monsters» tells the story of misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. It depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as and was a direct consequence of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda
Congo is a vast country, the size of weste
Europe and home to sixty million people. For decades Congo was known not only for its rich geology, which includes large reserves of cobalt, copper, diamonds, but for the extravagance of its dictator Mobutu SeseSeko.
For decades the Congo has held a fascination for outsiders. Lying at the heart of the African continent, and encompassing some of the continent’s most impenetrable jungles, it has long been associated with violence and injustice.
In 1996 a conflict began that has far cost the lives of more than five million people. The conflict in the Congo has many causes, but the most immediate ones came across the border from Rwanda, a country ninety times smaller
The war can be divided into 3 parts. The first Congo war ended with the toppling of Mobutu SeseSeko in May 1997. After a brief lull in the fighting the new president Laurent Kabila fell out with his Rwandan and Ugandan allies, sparking the second Congo war in August 1998. Fighting, however, has continued in the easte
Kivu region until today and can be considered as the third part of the war.
The origins of the conflict go back to the genocide in Rwanda, when a huge number of Tutsi refugees were in the territory of Zaire (until 1997 was called the Democratic Republic...