For a month, Thierry Michel followed the membres of aid relief organizations and Belgian soldiers posted in Kismayo as part of the United Nations intervention in Somalia. He filmed the daily life of those soldiers, accompanying them in their military peace-keeping operations and the repatriation of the refugees to their villages.
It questions the weil or ill-founded justifications for this first worldwide operation of military-humanitarian interference organized under the banner of the United Nations.
Humanitarian success or suicidl quagmire, liberation or occupation army, violent racists or peace soldiers ? This document gives us a unique approach and insight into an army invested with peace-enforcing mission to a Third-world nation, an army on campaign in the heart of Africa.


Scénario & directed by Thierry MICHEL
Executive producer Jacques IAURENT
Loaded with production: Chantal BOURNONVIU.E
Helper of Coordination Françoise FRANCOIS
Micheline LEBLUD
Claudette PICRON
Photography Patrick VAN NYEN
Sound AlexisVANDERPERREN
Editing: Anne DEJAER
Nathalie PIGEOLET
Pixing: Jacques CLISSE

Production: Unité documentaire
RTBF Télévision belge (CPB)
In association with Les Films de la Passerelle

Documentary- Betacam SP - 58' - 85'


Broadcasts / theatrical releases
29/12/1993 81' RTBF 20h11 Belgium