The Six-Day War (french: Guerre des Six Jours) was a series of armed confrontations between

Ugandan }), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southe ...

and Rwandan forces around the city of

Kisangani Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville or Stanleystad) is the capital of Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the fifth most populous urban area in the country, with an estimated population of 1,312,000 in 2021, and the larg ...

in the

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from 5 to 10 June 2000. The war formed part of the wider

Second Congo War The Second Congo War,, group=lower-alpha also known as the Great War of Africa or the Great African War and sometimes referred to as the African World War, began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 1998, little more than a year a ...

(1998–2003). Kisangani was also a scene of violence between Rwandan and Ugandan troops in August 1999 and 5 May 2000. However, the conflicts of June 2000 were the most lethal and seriously damaged a large part of the city, with more than 6,600 rounds fired.''Kisangani : commémoration du 6^e anniversaire de la guerre de six jours''
David Tshiala, Le Potentiel, 15 juin 2006. According to ''Justice et Libération'', a

human rights Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...

organisation based in Kisangani, the violence resulted in around 1,000 deaths and wounded at least 3,000, the majority of whom were civilians.''La Guerre des Six Jours''
, P. André Balusia, Monfortain, afriqueespoire.com.

In culture

The 2020 documentary film "

Downstream to Kinshasa ''Downstream to Kinshasa'' (french: En route pour le milliard) is a documentary film from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, directed by Dieudo Hamadi and released in 2020. The film centres on survivors of the DRC's Six-Day War of 2000, many of ...

" () by director Dieudo Hamadi centers on survivors of the Six-Day War, in which the victims travel to

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...

to seek compensation from the government.

References

External links

''Kisangani : Guerre de six jours : Amnésie collective''
''Alex Engwete'', 8 June 2007, on laconscience.com. {{in lang, fr

December 2000, ACT International
''Heavy fighting resumes in Kisangani''
10 June 2000, BBC. Some text has been based on the

article; see its history for attribution. Second Congo War Conflicts in 2000 Wars involving Uganda Wars involving Rwanda Six-day events Kisangani 2000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo