Taha reported from Rwanda towards the end of the Civil War between the Tutsis and Hutus . Taha also covered the concentration camps that were part of the genocide in which an estimated million people were massacred . Taha then traveled to the Congo , which was then called Zaire . He was embedded with the opposition forces that were fighting to overthrow the ruling regime in Kinshasa . He also reported from the front lines in the forest . In Kinshasa , Taha covered the ongoing conflict ; at one point in which he was trapped along with other foreign journalists in the main hotel . His reports continued to be broadcast as cities fell under the control of the opposition
genocide
Rwandan genocide
Assaad Taha