The Democratic Republic of Congo is land of volcanoes and great lakes, gleaming like a travel brochure full of loveliness and hope. It’s a deceptive tranquility.
In the last 10 years, 5.4 million people have died as a result of the DRC conflict: more than in any other war since World War 2.
Millions have fled the fighting and now live in makeshift shelters.
Families have disintegrated. But it’s a silent conflict: you don’t see the fighting, you don’t hear the fighting.
The major killers are malnutrition, cholera, measles and other preventable diseases, all as a result of war.
Rape has become a weapon of this conflict and hundreds of thousands of women and girls are the victims, while thousands of children have been forcefully recruited into various armed groups as porters, slaves and soldiers. this conflict
“Not by Bombs & Bullets” was filmed in the eastern DRC in February this year and shows a nation which, more than anything else, longs for peace.
It was produced by UNICEF.
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