JUSTICE FOR KABWE!

A TRIBUNAL,
AN OPERA,
A CAMPAIGN

For over 10 years, a European-Congolese team of lawyers, artists and activists around the director Milo Rau have been dealing with the civil war in the east and south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as “The African World War”. And indeed: the war, which has claimed millions of victims so far, is a war in which the whole world is involved. China, Europe, the USA: they all need the so-called conflict minerals - cobalt, gold - of which the Congo is richer than any other part of the world.

Rau and his team have investigated the crimes of the international mining business in their Congo Tribunal (since 2015), a global economic tribunal described by The Guardian as “the most ambitious political theater of all time”. Now, with Justice, they are staging the first mining opera in history: an allegorical requiem about business, guilt and corruption, based on a real case.

On the day of the premiere at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, one of the most important opera stages in Europe, January 22, 2024, starts the international crowdfunding campaign JUSTICE FOR KABWE! The money will benefit the victims of a terrible accident near Kolwezi in South Congo - whose story the opera Justice tells.