Beni Files

Spoken: Swahili/French. Subtitles: Dutch. 

Since the first week of October 2014, citizens in and around the town of Beni are being murdered in a gruesome manner: men, women and children have been hacked to death with machetes. Others have been raped and/or abducted. Today, more than two years after the start of these atrocities, more than 1,000 people lost their lives and about a hundred people remain missing. Around 80,000 people have fled the villages and have searched the relative safety in the town of Beni. Up until today, it is unclear who is behind these attacks, and why the population is being hunted.

Beni Files is an online monument created by Elien and Martin, in collaboration with two Congolese colleagues, Richard and Jean Baptiste, which aims to give the victims of these attacks visibility and dignity. Each victim has a name and a story. With this work, they want to show that each victim is somebody's child or parent. Beni Files is also a web documentary, in which the visitor is guided along the most striking events and testimonies of the atrocities in and around Beni.

More info: https://benifiles.com

3/5/2018, 19.30, Vormingplus Limburg, Cellebroedersstraat 13, 3500 Hasselt