“I cried there, but I was ashamed of my tears. My tears were luxurious. I can just go back to the luxury life. ” Chris Michel (68) has only just returned from the east of Congo, where the rebels of the M23 militia have taken over from the official army. For VTM, he was the first journalist in the world to make images there, and he ended up in, among other things, degrading refugee camps. “I want to stand with the people on the same basis, then you can really talk to them.”
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Journalist Chris Michel has just returned from Eastern Congo: “When a mother showed me her deceased child, I was completely broken”
Bytaketonews
Feb 18, 2025