In this documentary, Paul Cowan delivers unprecedented access to the
United Nations Department of Peacekeeping, and the determined and often
desperate manoeuvres to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC). The film cuts back and forth
between the United Nations headquarters in New York and events on the
ground in the DRC. We are with the peacekeepers in the 'Crisis Room' as
they balance the risk of loss of life on the ground with the enormous
sums of money required from uncertain donor countries. We are with UN
troops as the northeast Congo erupts and the future of the DRC, if not
all of central Africa, hangs in the balance. As Secretary General Kofi
Annan tells the General Assembly at the conclusion of The Peacekeepers:
"History is a harsh judge. The world will not forgive us if we do
nothing." Whether the world's peacekeeper did enough remains to be seen.
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