travelled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In late May 2004, the band travelled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with War Child Canada , a branch of the British charity organization War Child , to document the effects of the country’s civil war . There had been a stoppage in fighting for almost a year and a half, yet days after arriving, fighting broke out in Bukavu near the hotel where the band was staying. The band waited for the fighting to die down, but it did not. A UN peacekeeper, Charles “Chuck” Pelletier, called for armoured carriers to take the hotel’s occupants out of the hot zone. After nearly twenty hours, the carriers arrived, and the band and forty other civilians were taken to safety.