Central African Republic: France’s Forgotten War
11-minutes, 2007
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A remarkable film from the Central African Republic bordering Chad and Darfur. We investigate the overspill from the war in Darfur and the involvement of the French military in trying to deal with it. Locals say the French have gone far beyond what is defensible - bombing dwellings from the air and even managing to bomb the compound of Médecins Sans Frontières. Are the French on the wrong side, amid the slaughter? It's a desolate remote and brutalised land - a place that's fended for itself for thirty years. Few outsiders set foot in the forgotten north of the forgotten Central African Republic. Yet life endures here, caught between the turmoil of Chad and genocide of Darfur, and cursed with chaos of its own. Rape's so universal and unpunished across this country the war crimes court in the Hague has had to investigate it.