The Peacekeeper: The Brutal Fight against the Warlords! | ENDEVR Documentary

[@ENDEVRDocs]

Here is the briefest summary I could come up with, outlining the conflict in DRC up to 2024. This documentary shows events in 2003-2006. Unfortunately, it could be 2023-2024 as well. The Second Congo War erupted in 1998 due to strained relations between Rwanda and Congo's government under Laurent Kabila, who sought to diminish Rwanda's influence by denying their role in his rise to power and targeting ethnic Tutsis within his administration. In a shift of alliances, Kabila expelled foreign troops and permitted Hutu armed groups to regroup, prompting Rwanda to invade with the intent of securing its border from Hutu threats. This conflict escalated as Congolese forces, backed by Angola, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, clashed with Rwandan, Ugandan, and Burundian military forces and various rebel groups. The turmoil culminated in Kabila's assassination in 2001 during a coup, leading to his son, Joseph Kabila, taking control and ultimately concluding the war in 2002. The conflict resulted in catastrophic humanitarian consequences, with estimated death tolls exceeding three million by 2004. Between 2002 and 2003, Rwanda, Uganda, and DRC began implementing peace agreements that authorized a transitional government in Kinshasa led by Joseph Kabila. Despite these agreements, the establishment of truth and reconciliation commissions, and a renewed UN peacekeeping force, unrest and clashes persisted in eastern DRC. Joseph Kabila was formally inaugurated following a long-awaited popular election in 2006. Since 2003, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has faced ongoing conflict, primarily rooted in struggles for power, ethnic tensions, and competition for natural resources. The rise of various militant groups, including M23 and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), has led to widespread violence and instability, displacing millions and resulting in severe humanitarian crises, including rampant food insecurity. International interventions have been inconsistent, with peacekeeping missions met with local resistance. In October 2023, UN Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region Xia Huang warned that tensions between the two countries could lead to an open military confrontation, expressing his concerns about “the military strengthening in both countries, the absence of direct high-level dialogue, and the persistence of hate speech.” The two countries agreed in late November 2023 to a U.S.-brokered pact to bilaterally reduce military presence near the border, reduce hate speech, and refrain from efforts to affect one another’s political systems. Despite the agreement and initial promise of a seventy-two-hour ceasefire ahead of the DRC’s national election, ongoing, lethal conflict in eastern Congo has continued largely unabated into 2024.

[@zinjanthropus322]

This organization is a lost cause. They can't solve a thing.

[@novavortex7763]

The UN is doing things, but usually all the wrong things, lots of talk, some action behind the scenes, maybe some progress, but still talk, Perhaps its a lost cause.. but are we better without it? probably not Unless you can find something better to replace UN, its the best everyone has for now.

[@MTBBikeLife]

It's become a retirement place for old politicians who need a title and relevance. As an organisation we have seen the impacts of its failures to act and the tragedies that have unfolded while it has sat on the sidelines. What is the UN doing now in the Middle East conflict? What should the UN be doing in the Middle East??

[@MikeCerrooq1zt]

They are terrible most can't read never seen combat and that's from a US military soldier

[@andyturbo]

@@MikeCerrooq1zt That makes no sense as United Nations peacekeepers are a contribution of soldiers from nations worldwide. The same soldiers who are in the armed forces of each country.

[@johnwright9372]

The UN is only as strong as its constituent members, and its weakest link. If it ceases to exist things would be a lot worse in many parts of the world.

[@ENDEVRDocs]

In this documentary, Paul Cowan delivers unprecedented access to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping, and the determined and often desperate maneuvers to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC). This documentary offers a behind-the-scenes look into what goes on when there’s a humanitarian crisis. The documentary is from 2005 showing events from 2003.

[@Theiturianinitiatives]

Not true😢, sorry about that

[@mikejmardis]

This documentary shows how inept the UN is. Maybe if every partner country gave their agreed contributions, they could fund a successful force instead of throwing young lives out there to die so beurocrats (sp) Can later save face to the countries that refuse to their pledged part.

[@HezequielIsabuk]

Congolese sufferings rest on the richness of their country in natural resources. The westerners plays a big roles in destabilising Congolese government to keep the plunder going.

[@SteveNewbold-l6t]

The main problem with the UN is they are always UNinvoled in peace Why do the not let Africa sort out its own problems? Sierra Leone was peacefully under Executive Outcomes until the US got involved by getting rid of Executive Outcomes who within 6 days quietened the RUF down. When the UN got involved after EOs departure the country erupted into chaos again TIA ...This Is Africa....

[@Tekinila]

Africa must rise and solve its problems. I do not believe external entities will do it. They too have their own interests.

[@HotlineKALEB]

Having Uganda and Rwanda as neighbors must be a funny adventure, isn't it?

[@justicesomeday]

Thank you

[@AkhaLosii-js6tl]

Has the UN resolved any conflict since it's inception???

[@ENDEVRDocs]

@@AkhaLosii-js6tl It’s complicated. And what I feel this documentary shows in vivid detail: the minutiae and convoluted difficulties involved in any but this peacekeeping mission in particular.

[@jimjones1130]

UN battalion in Lebanon 80-81 here The answer is No

[@andyturbo]

It's not meant to solve conflicts. It is meant to keep the peace while the involved parties hopefully solve there issues.

[@maryannhope8276]

History repeats itself over and over

[@Alpha-Mike-Foxtrot]

Think that your local government is corrupt? Try going to Africa, Kinshasa in particular.

[@deanweaver4469]

These areas will never know peace 😢

[@Keithmwango]

Unfortunately correct

[@willvandermeer4733]

Cuz they black

[@mudooladaniel1303]

I can see alot of indecision on the side of UN. Alot of bureaucracy etc at the expense of a deteriorating situation. That was deadly

[@wildcat8598]

The scariest thing any country can hear is “were the government and we’re here to help” could switch government with UN as well😂

[@Dr24111]

They were so active and busy for short-term solutions.

[@evansotieno9605]

What's happening in DRC is very sad.

[@pietrojenkins6901]

What's happening, you say? That's their normalcy, it's been like this for over 5 decades. Sad to say the world is fatigued by it all just like Haiti.

[@knos360]

​@@pietrojenkins6901Nobody wants to Discuss King Leopold and how the Congo got into this mess after Belgian Colonialism tho..Always( The Blacks cant govern themselves) From WS...

[@WrongLawson]

VENTURING into the trading world without the help of a profesionals, trading and expecting profit is like turning water into wine you would need a miracle...

[@lockhughes]

Human politics has been failing successfully for thousands of years.. ;) .. v.sad

[@mikejmardis]

The US gives more than any other country to keep the UN alive something that the US doesn’t even need. If a country is going to short change their mandated contributions, then they can make up for that by offering their troops in times like this.

[@Dr24111]

Unfortunately, this is still the story of today( 27/09/2024)😮

[@Theiturianinitiatives]

"Why this publication now, 20 years later? Same place, same situation, nothing's changed. We have more displaced persons camps than in 2003 and we still have the Peacekeepers too. Born and raised through these conflicts and now we understand better what you used to say. This documentary does not tackle the causes nor the implications of the international communities in it.

[@emeliealegonero4043]

It Will happen in the U.S.A not very long from now 2024 😮

[@sonetteerasmus4860]

That poor pig being dragged across the street by its leg.....that is animal abuse!!!😢😡

[@mightyhabib1182]

Is that your mum?

[@123-NORTH-STREET]

Yes third word plus no wonder over running Europe

[@HezequielIsabuk]

Kagame's arms in Congo for Gold and Diamonds.

[@Tank65891]

Did the UN forces fight back or did they do nothing?

[@papikiwali]

G7'S GAME

[@matthewskudzienski888]

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[@HezequielIsabuk]

To stop Congolese senseless wars Kagame must stop aidding and abbeitting armed groups in northern Congo's mining region.

[@Dr24111]

Short-term solutions.

[@simpungamanzididier3708]

When I saw what the western countries does in Africa on names of what I can't understand ...sometimes I ask myself if they do that for who and on the half of whom!?! First they doesn't understand the contexts of where they re going! They re just bureaucrats and they do whatever they do in names of calculated geopolitics and their own interests

[@aloeviraa]

stop this nonsense of western countries, its decades now and Africans are the ones fighting, are we that dumb to be manipulated to fight each other. its Africans fighting each other to gain access to the minerals and also promote that backwardness of ethnicity. Stop this lazy thinking of blaming everything on western influence

[@toadinthehole8085]

Ancient

[@tinygrim]

Still history, like reading a book , educational.

[@bai2086]

I don't call them child soldiers, animals with guns.

[@ekkolima]

Ignorance.

[@paulbanales7955]

We Are All Animals , Without Thv Holy Spirit , Every City in Thv USA HAS One drug Lord Who Owns Thv Local Police department , Thv Police 🚓🚨 arrest Thv Competition Only , U are a dog 🐕 in a City 🏙️ Run By Wolves 🖤

[@Theiturianinitiatives]

Pourquoi cette publication maintenant, 20ans plutard ? Même endroit même situation, rien a changé

[@HezequielIsabuk]

Capt Ncunda is the major problem in northern Congo.

[@HezequielIsabuk]

Paul Kagame and his allies rebels are responsible for Congolese sufferings for power and money.

[@johnwright9372]

It has been going on for centuries. In the modern era it started with King Leopold of Belgium.

[@mosesjames2977]

Only for Diamond & Gold you's won't help bring peace to the country only Money & Food to get what yous want not other people lives 🙏🏾❤️😢

[@John-cc9my]

How old is this? Bush hasn't been president for a long time

[@ENDEVRDocs]

Yes it is but what it does give is insight to what happens when crisis around the world happen. The forces behind the scenes, the power brokering, the UN, military forces etc. All the moving pieces for conflicts most people don’t care about. Not only do they have to help solve a conflict they also have to make sure it gets a few minutes on the public stage because without public awareness nothing will change. It’s hard enough with awareness. So that was my takeaway.

[@novavortex7763]

@@ENDEVRDocs You didn't answer the question, when was this? what year?

[@ENDEVRDocs]

@@novavortex7763 the events are from 2003 and the documentary from 2005 (it’s also in the text box)

[@knos360]

Nobody wants to Discuss King Leopold and how the Congo got into this mess after Belgian Colonialism tho..Always( The Blacks cant govern themselves) From WS...

[@aloeviraa]

Really now, so are we gonna cry Leopold as loud as we can so he wakes up and we place him at any nearest court to be judged, and whala!!!!! the Congo gets closure and by a magic stroke its pacified. The issue in Congo is public administration, as long as the law and civil Orgarnisation is absent the Congo will be violent corrupt and at war with its self.

[@tomster1414]

It's been discussed on several if not thousands of forums

[@gozumrafael]

Don't be hampered by the past. Congolese should realize that the future of their children depends on them ordinary people being braver in the face of the Greedines of the few. I know it is seldom a character trait in the DNA of black people to be patriotic but it's the only way

[@gozumrafael]

What should be done?

[@HezequielIsabuk]

The difficult in solving Congolese hardships is a French failure to tackle the issue of political -military conflicts in the region.

[@SteveNewbold-l6t]

It was never a French colony but a Belguim colony and the French have always been Useless

[@SteveNewbold-l6t]

The French are not the Original or colonists of the Congo. Begum was the colonilists

[@melodeev5487]

Pixilating these scenes makes this entire documentary pretty much worthless. The only way this is going to stop is to outrage the rest of the world. Maybe if people around the world actually saw the horrors instead of just watching a pixilated documentary they would actually give a damn.

[@Saifoloitaupe]

😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@sergez6172]

I'm going to be flamed from left to right for what I'm about to try say. This situation breaks my heart Africa ad a whole and what its become has broke my heart i feel it is genuinely one the actual more clear cut cases that foreign involvement in nearly every regard over the past 200 years has done nothing but hurt the people of Africa more and more, and introduction of "the White mans way" only seems to complicate matters it's not clear cut these are an ancient race that we will never truly comprehend with first world perception.... When i look at Israel and Palestine i see no more then what i seen in the History of the north of my own first world country and the senseless of it all.... But Africa is really a different beast and i mean that in all the best kind of ways.

[@Fernando-vb9ti]

Get us out of the U.N 😊

[@mudooladaniel1303]

France did not do a thing . In all french colonies where there has been war- france has always just looked on. For example they looked at the Genocide in Rwanda go on which resulted into the now never ending confl8ct in congo. Look Chad, CAR, the Sahel region..OH MY GOD

[@johnwright9372]

DRC was the Belgian Congo, not French.

[@mochacosgranday4205]

CIA make Jokes in UN 😂

[@HezequielIsabuk]

Yoweri Museveni has long back come into his human sense and retreaved his arms in Congo for the Congolese to leave as human and rights as he is deserve.

[@johnwright9372]

None of this garbled comment makes sense.

[@HezequielIsabuk]

@johnwright9372 Yes, ignorant as you may be. Even if i may grind you to a powder i may not be able to remove you out of your foolishness. What more do you know

[@jungleharry]

The peaceful side was directed by Chinese investment and business. The Chinese won again….they don’t mix politics with business 😂

[@johnwright9372]

Wanna bet?

[@madau666]

black girl mlen mlen kimochi delsu jav😊

[@HezequielIsabuk]

Congolese sufferings rest on the richness of their country in natural resources. The westerners plays a big roles in destabilising Congolese government to keep the plunder going.

[@johnwright9372]

Congolese leaders don't have to extort the bribes.