Stacey Dooley returns to BBC3 with a moving and insightful documentary exploring the issue of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an estimated 5.4 million people have died in the civil war. Stacey meets kids who have been soldiers. She goes to a rescue centre where boys and girls arrive daily, rescued from guerrilla militia units as well as the Congolese National Army. Stacey witnesses for herself the terrifying complexities of war where young kids have been manipulated to commit atrocities, but who still have to return to living a normal life again. Stacey first came to the public’s notice as one of the young people experiencing for real the life led by exploited workers in the Third World as they serviced the fashion industry in the West, in BBC3’s award winning series Blood, Sweat & T-Shirts. A Ricochet production for BBC3.
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