In Basankusu, Democratic Republic of Congo, this video features a man doing business in the palm plantations. He explains the difficulties faced by the country, which include corruption and theft, which is endemic. The ASADHO team visits the plantation and a nearby village where they address voting and human rights issues with the receptive villagers. They continue on to visit the chief and his extended family. Association Africaine pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO). Interview.

In Basankusu, Democratic Republic of Congo, this video features a man doing business in the palm plantations. He explains the difficulties faced by the country, which include corruption and theft, which is endemic. The ASADHO team visits the plantation and a nearby village where they address voting and human rights issues with the receptive villagers. They continue on to visit the chief and his extended family. Association Africaine pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO). Interview.

Footage of the infamous Masisi Massacre of June 22, 1996, obtained by members of Congo/Zaire's leading human rights group, the African Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADHO). An ASADHO member travels with the Zairian security forces as they attempt to launch Operation Kimia (Peace). Zairian security forces claim that the massacred bodies are of Tutsi villagers killed by Hutu refugees. Human rights groups, including ASADHO, claim that the killings were actually by Rwandan Tutsi insurgents and the victims were Hutu refugees. According to ASADHO, the Mobutu regime publicized erroneous reports of "well-armed Hutu rebel belligerents" in order to allow the continued revenge upon the Hutu refugees by forces of the newly formed Rwandan Tutsi government (Rwandan Patriotic Army) and the ADFL (Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire). Interview.

A team from ASADHO travels with a representative of the French Human Rights group, "Agir Ensemble," to Bansankusu, a medium sized town on the Lulonga River. The piece begins in transit, on the plane, with a discussion of why this remote area in the heart of the Equator region should be visited. Discussions with various activists, teachers, town leaders and citizens confirm that the general population fears the regime and lacks faith in the value of the upcoming elections. Interview.

This video documents the assistance that ASADHO provides to Bensege Futi, a children's detention center located one and a half hours away from Kinshasa, in the Bas Zaire region. Children between the ages of 10 and 21 have been sentenced for committing petty crimes. Abandoned or disowned by their families, most children depend on the Center for all aspects of their survival. Sadly, no funds exist in order for personnel to feed and care for the young detainees. The director of the Center, who appears on the tape, has not been paid in months; some of the children in the video are not in detention but are the children of personnel, and are just as hungry as the detainees. ASADHO regularly provides the Center with medicine for the children. On this particular occasion, ASADHO brings food, soap and plastic utensils for each child, as well as some clothes. The children are seen singing a song which welcomes and blesses the visitors. Interview.

Footage includes women in alley preparing food for day of the African Child / CUs fish being prepared / versus groups of boys outside sitting, singing, distribution of food, kids eating, kids and adults play soccer / interiors of center with AZADHO inspecting conditions, rooms are decrepit, food being prepared, children in groups outside, interiors which look like cavernous barracks, dingy medical office / interview described situation of detained children / AZADHO distributing clothes to kids // Exteriors Church Fatima, site of "Colloque" (seminar) / Interior versus seminar, incl Kisimba Ngoy, Guillaume Ngefa of ASADHO, Tokunbo Ige.

This video documents the assistance that ASADHO provides to Bensege Futi, a children's detention center located one and a half hours away from Kinshasa, in the Bas Zaire region. Children between the ages of 10 and 21 have been sentenced for committing petty crimes. Abandoned or disowned by their families, most children depend on the Center for all aspects of their survival. Sadly, no funds exist in order for personnel to feed and care for the young detainees. The director of the Center, who appears on the tape, has not been paid in months; some of the children in the video are not in detention but are the children of personnel, and are just as hungry as the detainees. ASADHO regularly provides the Center with medicine for the children. On this particular occasion, ASADHO brings food, soap and plastic utensils for each child, as well as some clothes. The children are seen singing a song which welcomes and blesses the visitors.

Footage includes women in alley preparing food for day of the African Child / CUs fish being prepared / VS groups of boys outside sitting, singing, distribution of food, kids eating, kids and adults play soccer / interiors of center with AZADHO inspecting conditions, rooms are decrepit, food being prepared, children in groups outside, interiors which look like cavernous barracks, dingy medical office / interview described situation of detained children / AZADHO distributing clothes to kids // Exteriors Church Fatima, site of "Colloque" (seminar) / Interior VS seminar, incl Kisimba Ngoy, Guillaume Ngefa of ASADHO, Tokunbo Ige.

An interview and discussion with the North Kivu Community Leader details the events preceding the Masisi Massacre. The conversation between three men includes the president and vice-president of ASADHO and an area chief from Masisi, Chief Kalinda Ndandu. The second portion of the tape shows ASADHO members teaching teenagers at a school about elections.