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Sierra Leone [2/3] Recordings of field research in Sierra Leone by Corinne Dufka, senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division with specialized expertise in Sierra Leone. The tape contains an unedited interview with Corinne Dufka talking about the consequences of the civil war that broke out in Sierra Leone in 1991, including the abduction of civilians by the rebel forces and the amputation practices that were prevalent between 1996 and 1999. It also includes: a recording of Corinne Dufka’s working place by night while the camera operator explains the lack of electricity in most of the households in Sierra Leone; Freetown street footage; footage of villages which have been burnt and destroyed by the rebels as they were withdrawing eastwards; interviews with locals; and footage of a religious gathering in Sierra Leone. English language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 1 hour Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009773 |
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Sierra Leone [3/3] The tape contains recordings of field research in Sierra Leone by Corinne Dufka, senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division with specialized expertise in Sierra Leone. She visits villages and towns in Sierra Leone and interviews the locals about the physical and psychological scars left behind by the civil war that broke out in 1991. The tape contains interviews with survivors of the attacks; shots of children playing; images of adults preoccupied with their daily chores; footage of Sierra Leone’s landscapes; images of Corinne Dufka’s workplace and temporary home; footage of the streets of Freetown; and footage of the destruction caused by the war. English language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 43 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009774 |
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ITN Footage – Starving Escapees Footage of refugees who had been held as hostages by the RUF and used as slave laborers. They were liberated by a group of Kamajors on October 24, 1996, in the general vicinity of Blama, a town in the Kenema District of the Eastern province of Sierra Leone. Officials of the UN World Food Program (WFP) reported that the refugees were suffering from malnourishment. English language, Date of production: 1996-10-24, Duration: 2 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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ITN Footage – Rebels Sign Peace Accords The video contains footage shot on November 30, 1996, in the Ivory Coast capital, Abidjan, when Sierra Leone’s President, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and RUF leader Foday Sankoh signed a peace accord to bring an end to more than five years of civil war. The video continues with footage of Foday Sankoh training with other rebels, including children, in the bushes near Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone. These are believed to be among the first images of the RUF broadcast in the West. The segment ends with footage of Sierra Leonean civilians at an International Aid Center near Bo, where most of the children are malnourished. English language, Date of production: 1996-11-30, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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ITN Footage – Coup Leader Koroma The video contains footage of a rally that took place in the National Stadium of Freetown on May 30, 1997, when hundreds of mostly young male AFRC supporters marched from the East End of Freetown to the National Stadium, demonstrating against the Nigerian intervention in the Sierra Leone crisis. The recording ends with footage of Nigerian Alpha jets flying over Freetown. Date of production: 1997-05-30, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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ITN Footage – Rape, Murder in Sierra Leone The video contains footage shot at Connaught Hospital in Freetown where civilian patients with mutilation injuries came to receive medical help after being attacked in the Kono district by AFRC/RUF rebels. It features interviews with Dr. Jonathan Brock from MSF (Doctors Without Borders) and MSF relief worker Martha Carey. English language, Date of production: 1998-05, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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ITN Footage – UN Peacekeepers Released This video contains footage of government soldiers at Rogberi Junction camp. The area was the scene of intense fighting throughout the entire month of May in 1998, and is also the place where the decimated bodies of the UN soldiers were discovered in mid-May and where two foreign journalists, Kurt Schork of Reuters and Miguel Gil Moreno of APTN, were killed in an ambush by the RUF. The video also contains footage shot at Lungi Airport on May 18, 2000, when Zambian and Kenyan UN peacekeepers were released by the RUF; a still of Alan Smith, a 55 year-old British aid worker from Birmingham who was kidnapped at an RUF checkpoint in Songo on May 7, 2000; footage of British SAS soldiers on a jeep looking for Smith in the area around Songo; and footage of British Gurkhas patrolling the area around Lungi Airport on May 16, 2000. Afghan Persian, Dari language, Date of production: 2000-05, Duration: 2 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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ITN Footage – Rebel Leader Captured Channel 4 News report by Alex Thomson covering the capture of Foday Sankoh by Scorpion, an SLA soldier. The report includes a still of Sankoh in the car after he was turned over to the Sierra Leone police; footage of victims of the RUF's terror tactics; footage of British paratroopers at Lungi Airport where it was believed Sankoh was being detained; shots of the outside of Sankoh's compound; and footage of released UN peacekeepers at Lungi airport. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-17, Duration: 5 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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ITN Footage - UN Peacekeepers Return Channel 4 News report by Alex Thomson on the situation in Sierra Leone and the extent of British involvement. It includes footage of Freetown streets followed by scenes from Lungi Airport, as well as footage with a new UN contingent of Indian troops. The report features an interview with Brigadier David Richards, the British Commanding Officer in Sierra Leone, who talks about the warm welcome British troops have received from the locals, the position of the British troops in the war, and the role of the UN. It also includes an interview with a Sierra Leone Police Chief, a British national from Lancaster, speaking about Foday Sankoh’s capture and his role in diamond smuggling. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-18, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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ITN Footage – Sierra Leone Rushes This video contains footage of a ward for victims of the RUF's mutilation campaign. The ward was supported through donations by MSF (Doctors Without Borders). At the time of this recording, the hospitals in Freetown were overwhelmed by a high volume of civilian patients from Kono District suffering from attacks at the hands of AFRC/RUF rebels. The next section contains footage of President Kabbah attending a memorial on May 14, 1998, for his late wife, Patricia Kabbah, who died on May 4 in London while recovering from surgery. The video ends with footage of thousands of demonstrators who took the streets of Freetown, Bo, Makeni, and Kenema on May 16, 1998, to show their support for British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone Peter Penfold and the role he played in restoring the country's civilian government. English language, Date of production: 1998-05, Duration: 11 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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ITN Footage – Coup in Sierra Leone This video features footage from May 31, 1997, six days after the AFRC coup in Sierra Leone ousted democratically elected President Kabbah. It includes shots of smoke rising from buildings, armed rebels riding in the streets of Freetown, and SLA soldiers, presumably loyal to the new AFRC regime, walking down a Freetown street, as well as an incomplete interview with Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyoaku. English language, Date of production: 1997-05-31, Duration: 1 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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Bloodless Coup Nick Gowing reports for Channel 4 News on the uncertain elections planned to take place in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. The video includes shots of a skeleton hanging from a post and a skull in the road; footage of a tent city for the internally displaced and the homeless; a shot of Captain Strasser; images of Brigadier Bio; footage of destroyed buildings along a road; footage of RUF leader Foday Sankoh at a rebel camp; and shots of government troops preparing their armed jeep for patrol. The report features an interview with Krishnan Srinivasan (Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations), who explains that the delegation is fairly optimistic about the future elections. English language, Date of production: 1996-01, Duration: 2 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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Sierra Leone in Chaos Channel 4 News report featuring Tanya Sillem who talks about the devastating effects of the first years of civil war in Sierra Leone. It includes a short history of the origins of the conflict, its connections with Liberia, and footage of: destroyed property; RUF soldiers led by Foday Sankoh in the jungle; Foday Sankoh with rebels in various villages; government soldiers training and trying to adapt to the rebels' tactics; new recruits training outside of Freetown; mutilated civilians in hospital; Sankoh standing over the arsenal of weapons that he maintains, stolen from forces opposing the RUF; images of the civil war in Liberia; rebel child soldiers standing around or posing for the camera; rebels led by Sankoh singing the RUF anthem; European hostages taken by the RUF (six British nationals, three Swiss, and one German kidnapped during various attacks on mining companies in the southeast in early January 1995); and SLA soldiers marching and chanting. It features interviews with Captain Valentine Strasser (Head of state, Sierra Leone) and Charles Taylor (President of Liberia), among others. English language, Date of production: 1995-03, Duration: 8 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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British Soldier Killed The West Side Boys, an armed group in Sierra Leone, captured 11 soldiers from Britain's Royal Irish Regiment and one Sierra Leone liaison officer on August 25, 2000, near the towns of Masiaka and Forudugu, later releasing five of them but refusing to negotiate the fate of the remaining ones. As a result, "Operation Barras" was launched on the morning of September 10, 2000, by the British Special Air Service, Special Boat Service, and Parachute Regiment. The video contains footage from two press conferences that took place in London following the British raid on the West Side Boys headquarters. In the first segment, British Prime Minister Tony Blair reports that the mission was a success despite some casualties. The second part of the video contains footage from a press conference in London featuring Chief of Defense Staff General Sir Charles Guthrie, Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, and British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Peter Hain. The images from the press conference are followed by footage of teenage members of the West Side Boys crossing a bridge near Masiaka in May 2000. The video ends with footage of British forces interacting with Sierra Leonean civilians in and around Freetown. English language, Date of production: 2000-09-10, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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Foday Sankoh Captured This video contains footage from May 17, 2000, the day RUF leader Foday Sankoh was captured. It includes footage of the people present and involved in Sankoh’s arrest; footage of Sankoh's Freetown home on May 5, 2000, with Sankoh surrounded by his aides and entertaining European journalists; images of former AFRC leader Johnny Paul Koroma's Freetown home where Sankoh was first taken following his arrest; and footage of a crowd and soldiers at Cockerill. The video features interviews with bystanders to the capture of Fadoy Sankoh; Scorpion, the man who shot and arrested Sankoh; UN Spokesman David Wimhurst, who explains that the UN did not play a part in the apprehension of Sankoh; and Foday Sankoh himself talking about the RUF being provoked. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-17, Duration: 6 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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UN Peacekeepers Murdered This video contains footage of dead bodies near Rogberi Junction. A Sierra Leone government commander explains that eight UNAMSIL soldiers were killed by the RUF, while UN spokesman David Wimhurst explains that their identity has yet to be determined. The clip also features interviews with British cameraman Paul Barnett and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-22, Duration: 4 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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Sierra Leone: Ferry Footage of Sierra Leone refugees boarding or waiting to board a ferry, as well as images of UN vehicles and armed soldiers patrolling the dock. Features an interview with one of the refugees who made it onto the boat. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-22, Duration: 4 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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Sierra Leone: ICRC The video documents the work done at Kenema Government Hospital, where ICRC doctors try to address operation and rehabilitation procedures. It features interviews with an ICRC doctor, and several patients who returned home and resumed their daily activities. English language, Date of production: 2000, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009775 |
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APTN Europe Late: Rebel Leader Sankoh Captured APTN report on the conflict in Sierra Leone which includes footage from May 17, 2000, the day the leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Foday Sankoh was captured. It also contains shots of the crowd and soldiers gathered outside of the Sierra Leone Army Headquarters at Cockerill; a still of Sankoh crammed into a car and surrounded by the people who have arrested him; footage of the scene outside of Sankoh's Freetown compound on May 8, 2000, when rebel soldiers opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators; and footage of British soldiers patrolling the area around Lungi Airport. The video features interviews with bystanders to the capture of Fadoy Sankoh; UN Spokesman David Wimhurst, who explains that the UN did not play a part in the apprehension of Sankoh; and Foday Sankoh himself, talking about the RUF being provoked. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-17, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN North America: Hostage Rescue Wrap This video is about "Operation Barras," the British military operation that was employed by the British Special Air Service, Special Boat Service, and Parachute Regiment in Sierra Leone on September 10, 2000, to rescue six British soldiers and one Sierra Leone liaison officer who had been held hostage by the West Side Boys militia since August 25, 2000. It includes footage of British troops in jeeps in and around Lungi Airport driving through checkpoints; footage of armed members of the West Side Boys stopping a car on the road; scenes from a press conference in London with Chief of Defense Staff General Sir Charles Guthrie, Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, and British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Peter Hain; and footage of British forces performing military exercises and patrolling the streets of Freetown. It features interviews with Alan Jones (High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Sierra Leone), Major John Douglas of the Royal Irish Rangers, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair offering a tribute to the courage of the armed forces involved in the rescue operation. English language, Date of production: 2000-09-10, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTV Global Video Wire, The Americas: Robin Cook Denies UK Mercenary Link in Sierra Leone Shots of various British newspaper headlines concerning the purported link between the British military and Sandline International, a private military company (PMC) suspected of having shipped arms to Sierra Leone in defiance of a UN embargo. It continues with excerpts from a British talk show from May 10, 1998, featuring British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and an interview with Tim Spicer, a Sandline official. It includes footage of Freetown and of President Kabbah embracing a Sierra Leone official upon his return to the capital in February 1998. The recording ends with Robin Cook at a press conference on May 9, 1998, in London. English language, Date of production: 1998-05, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTV Global Video Wire, North America Update: Chaotic Scenes as Would Be Refugees Try to Board Boat Footage shot in Queen Elizabeth II Quay, a locality in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on June 12, 1997, when over a thousand civilians flooded the quay in an attempt to board the “African Queen” and flee Sierra Leone following days of fighting between Nigerian troops and the Sierra Leone Army (SLA). It includes footage of suspected looters who have been taken to the military headquarters at Cockerill. English language, Date of production: 1997-06-12, Duration: 2 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN GNS Weekly, Sierra Leone: Bodies Recording of the discovery of dead bodies wearing Zambian military uniforms with UN emblems at Rogberi Junction on May 22, 2000. The discovery was made by Sierra Leone Army (SLA) troops in the midst of ongoing negotiations with the RUF concerning the release of UN peacekeepers. It features interviews with Edmond Bangura (SLA) and UN spokesman David Wimhurst. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-22, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Morning, Rebel Commander Rejects Proposed Ceasefire Footage of Lungi Airport on January 8, 1999, two days after RUF rebels attacked Freetown and one day after President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah called for a cease-fire. It contains images of UN planes and personnel, and of various soldiers and officials associated with the Sierra Leone government, as well as an interview with Francis Okelo (UN Special Representative to Sierra Leone). English language, Date of production: 1999-01-08, Duration: 2 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Early, Sierra Leone Civil War: Thousands Dead The video contains recordings of SLA soldiers singing and drinking in a Freetown hotel when SLA was under the control of the AFRC. It continues with footage of British army instructors training the new SLA soldiers; an interview with Lieutenant Colonel Simon Caley (British Liaison Officer) explaining that the new recruits are being taught to be accountable to the people who elected the government and not just the government; footage of Major Jez Hermer (British Army Instructor) in a classroom with new recruits; footage with recruits being trained in the jungle; and an interview with Second Lieutenant Patrice Bunduka, who supports a democratically elected government. English language, Date of production: 1999-09-13, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN, Rebels Cause Terror The week this footage was shot witnessed the beginning of peace talks involving the OAU (Organization for African Unity), the RUF, and the NPRC (National Provisional Ruling Council). Despite this, much of the Sierra Leone countryside was under RUF siege. The video includes footage of SLA soldiers at roadblocks and checkpoints on the outskirts of Bo, a town 100 miles southeast of Freetown; footage from the nearby town of Mirraba in the aftermath of a 1994 attack; an interview with Brigadier Julius Maada Bio (Deputy Chairman at NPRC and Chief of Defense Staff, Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces, RSLMF), and footage of an MSF (Doctors Without Borders) camp for victims of the RUF amputation campaign. English language, Date of production: 1995-12-02, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Features, RUF Behind Terror Campaign Recording of Sierra Leonean victims of the RUF's mutilation campaign. The video features David Evans, an American who has volunteered to work with amputees in Sierra Leone—he himself is an amputee, having lost both his legs during a tour of duty in Vietnam. He points out the importance of a locally trained national staff to help the victims cope. It includes footage of amputees getting prosthetics and engaging in exercises designed to help them adjust to their new prosthetic limbs. English language, Date of production: 2000-12-09, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Early, Town of Masiaka Captured This video features footage from May 13, 2000, when pro-government troops led by the former SLA "Westside" unit and Kamajors captured the town of Masiaka, a strategically important town throughout the ten-year civil war in Sierra Leone. The video includes footage of Westside soldiers and Kamajors firing their weapons in the air and celebrating in the streets; a Kamajor commander explaining that they met with fierce resistance after an early morning attack but were able to prevail; images of British forces assisting a group of 60 Senegalese nationals as they make their way to a large transport helicopter for evacuation; excerpts from a press conference featuring presidential spokesman Professor Septimus Kai Kai; and footage of British troops patrolling the streets of Freetown. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-13, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Early, Sierra Leone Protest in Washington D.C Recording of a protest taking place in the United States, on May 31, 2000, outside the State Department in Washington D.C., in response to the escalating violence in Sierra Leone. The protest coincided with the day Amnesty International launched a campaign aiming to end the trade of diamonds from rebel-held areas of Sierra Leone. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-31, Duration: 1 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTV Global Video Wire, North America Update: Tensions Rising in the Capital The video contains images of Freetown residents getting on a boat, people gathered on the side of the road right outside of Lungi Airport, and footage of the dead bodies of soldiers and civilians lying next to an empty bus—the result of fighting that took place in June 1997 between Nigerian forces controlling the airport, serving under the mandate of ECOMOG, and AFRC troops, supporters of the new military leaders of Sierra Leone. English language, Date of production: 1997-06-11, Duration: 1 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Late, Hostages Held by Ex-Junta Soldiers A report about the kidnappings that took place on a large scale in Sierra Leone in 1999. The first part of the video contains footage of a group of about 130–160 children in Magbeni on July 16, 1999, most of them having been abducted during the RUF invasion of Freetown in January 1999. The video continues with footage of UNOMSIL troops who were part of the negotiating team; a recording of Ibrahim Sesay (the Director of Caritas in Makeni) talking to a rebel child soldier; images of a crowd at the National Stadium in Freetown following the AFRC coup on May 25, 1997; shots of AFRC leader Johnny Paul Koroma; footage of ECOMOG soldiers reclaiming Freetown in February 1998 after months of fighting with AFRC troops; and footage of rebel fighters in Makeni after the signing of the Lome Peace Accords in July 1999. The video features interviews with Peter Hain, the British Foreign Office Minister, and with Justin Forsyth of Oxfam. The video ends with footage of people celebrating in Makeni in July 1999. English language, Date of production: 1999-06-16, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTV, Rebel Forces Clash with Government Troops Footage shot in early May 1995 in Sierra Leone when RUF had control over most of the country. It contains footage with a government soldier at a checkpoint in Kenema in the southeast of Sierra Leone, holding a human skull on the end of a stick; footage of SLA troops being trained by mercenaries on the outskirts of Freetown; images of RUF prisoners at the military headquarters at Cockerill; and footage of children in an orphanage in Kenema. It features an interview with Berhanu Dinka (UN Special Envoy to Sierra Leone), who talks about the peace negotiations between the RUF rebels and the government, then led by Valentine Strasser of NPRC (National Provisional Ruling Council). English language, Date of production: 1995-05, Duration: 4 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Features, Freetown: Legacy of 8-Year War A video examining the aftermath of the conflict in Sierra Leone. It focuses on the fate that awaits the rebel child soldiers in Kpayama Center for ex-Combatant Children as they attempt to re-integrate themselves into society. The video includes images of amputees in Freetown; interviews with former child soldiers; and footage from an amputee camp in Freetown where amputees work to make prosthetic limbs. English language, Date of production: 2000-03-22, Duration: 4 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTV Global Video Wire, ECOMOG Soldiers Close to Defeating Junta A video shot on February 14, 1998, only days after Nigerian-led ECOMOG forces entered Freetown and took control of the capital, pushing aside the AFRC supporters. It includes footage of the people in Freetown welcoming the troops; footage of AFRC rebels turning their weapons over to ECOMOG soldiers; and images of ECOMOG forces under light fire. The video features an interview with Nigerian ECOMOG commander, Colonel Rauf Apata, who talks about the seven day campaign to take over the capital. English language, Date of production: 1998-02-14, Duration: 3 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN: Latest, UN Soldiers Held Hostage by Rebels Recording of a demonstration held on May 6, 2000, in Freetown sponsored by local women in support of the UN soldiers who have been taken hostage by RUF rebels. The video includes footage with RUF leader Foday Sankoh meeting with the Libyan representative for the OAU (Organization for African Unity). English language, Date of production: 2000-03-06, Duration: 2 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Asia Pacific Late, Freetown: City Still Reeling After Massacre The video documents Freetown in early March 1999 following the RUF invasion of the capital on January 6, 1999. The video contains shots of destroyed buildings; footage of a man digging a shallow grave for the remains of a woman's husband; shots of a destroyed church and a local mosque; images of people running; ECOMOG soldiers firing their guns in the street; wounded and dead civilians being carried out; rebels walking into the city; rebels burning a house and throwing rocks at the burning building; footage with victims of the RUF's mutilation campaign recovering in a hospital; images of an overcrowded camp for the internally displaced and for those who lost their homes during the fighting; footage originally taken by Sorious Samura, the Sierra Leone journalist who found himself filming the fighting in Freetown when the rebels attacked. This footage includes ECOMOG soldiers engaged in an exchange of fire with rebels; ECOMOG soldiers carrying a dead soldier away; a suspected rebel shot by a Kamajor in the street; images of Moses, a child suspected of being a rebel sniper and beaten by ECOMOG soldiers, and who is later seen at a center for orphaned children. The video features interviews with Mohamad Bangura (Imam of the mosque) and several survivors of the massacres. English language, Date of production: 1999-03, Duration: 5 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Evening, UN Troops Rescue 220 Peacekeepers Recorded on July 16 and 17, 2000, this is a video of the UN, British, and ECOMOG joint operation to rescue 220 peacekeepers being held hostage by RUF rebels in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. It includes footage of a UN gunship flying over the Eastern Province town of Kailahun after providing cover fire for the joint rescue operation; shots of a truck arriving with an injured UN peacekeeper; images of the UN base in Daru; shots of a UN tank convoy; images of UN soldiers on a radio and of UN Force Commander overseeing operations in Daru; shots of British soldiers milling about; and footage of UN soldiers firing heavy artillery from Daru to give advancing troops cover. It features an interview with UN Force Commander Major-General Vijay Jetley. English language, Date of production: 2000-07-26, Duration: 5 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Early, Freetown: Riot Wrap Footage from May 8, 2000, when demonstrators took to the streets of Freetown and protested outside the gates of Foday Sankoh's Freetown compound. It includes images of the armed rebels opening fire on the crowd and footage of UN soldiers trying to manage the crowd. It features an interview with Foday Sankoh, the RUF leader. The video continues with foreign nationals gathered at a hotel waiting to be evacuated. It also includes an interview with Zeinab Watfy, a British citizen, who has been injured during the fighting in Freetown. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-08, Duration: 4 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Late: Sierra Leone: Soldiers Escape A short video on the four unarmed UN military observers who were working with Kenyan peacemakers in Sierra Leone, and who managed to escape into the jungle after their town was besieged by the Revolutionary United Front in May 2000. The video features interviews with two of them: Major Phil Ashby and Major David Lingard. English language, Date of production: 2000-05-12, Duration: 2 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN Europe Late, Makeni: Rebel Stronghold Recording with people in Makeni and Lunsa celebrating the signing of a peace accord between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Lome on July 7, 1999. It includes interviews with the locals and with an army official. English language, Date of production: 1999-07, Duration: 4 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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APTN, Rebels Force Children to Become Soldiers A video about a school class where many of the children are former rebel soldiers. Features an interview with a former child soldier who describes how he killed his grandparents. English, English language, Date of production: 1999, Duration: 2 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009776 |
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Sierra Leone - The Rebels A documentary on the conflict in Sierra Leone told from the point of view of the members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the rebels affiliated with it. Throughout Sierra Leone’s eight-year-long civil war, rebel soldiers have been accused of killing, mutilating, raping, and kidnapping civilians. While there is plenty of eyewitness evidence to support the charges against rebel soldiers, rebel officials say the blame for these atrocities should not fall on their troops alone. Sam Bockery, commander of the RUF, maintains that they are misrepresented by the Sierra Leone government and the Nigerian-led ECOMOG forces (Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group, a West African multilateral armed forces) and that while the latter are interested in controlling the mines for their own benefit, the rebels fight for the people and for a state that will invest the nation’s rich mineral wealth into schools and hospitals. English language, Date of production: 1998, Duration: 16 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009777 |
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Interview The section contains an interview with a rebel leader talking about the Kabbah regime (Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah served as President of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007), the imprisonment of Foday Sankoh (founder and leader of the Revolutionary United Front, RUF), and the deeds of the Nigerian-led ECOMOG troops. English language, Date of production: 1998, Duration: 5 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009777 |
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Sierra Leone - Kamajor Chaos A short documentary on the civil war in Sierra Leone and the actors involved in it. It starts with the fight for Freetown at the beginning of 1999 when ECOMOG forces, backed by British troops, and with the help of the Kamajors, drove the rebels out of the capital and reinstated Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah as President of Sierra Leone. The film follows closely the Kamajors fighters (hunters from the bush) armed with amulets and colorful outfits who can supposedly shirk off the bullets of their enemies and who are convinced that their magic protects them from death and injury. The film shows that the Nigerian soldiers are struggling to maintain order amongst them, with many of them looting the towns they have taken from the RUF rebels. English language, Date of production: 1998, Duration: 9 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009777 |
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Executive Outcomes – The War Business The documentary tries to uncover the truth behind the actions of Executive Outcomes (EO), a private military company founded in South Africa by former Lieutenant-Colonel of the South African Defense Force, Eeben Barlow, in 1989. EO marketed itself as a stabilizing force for African nations despite having had important connections with the Apartheid death squads, the blood diamond businesses, and international arms trade. Contracts with the governments of Papua New Guinea, Angola, Sierra Leone, and Indonesia, as well as connections with Sandline International, a private military company (PMC) based in London, made EO a major actor in the African continent. The film investigates the privatization of war fighting in the African continent, particularly the case of Angola, through interviews with former EO employees who, protected by anonymity, detail the modus operandi of EO, and through unique video footage of EO mercenaries in the front line positions of the conflicts. It also includes interviews with several officials, politicians, businessman, and civilians, including victims of the mercenaries. English, English language, Date of production: 1997, Duration: 52 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009778 |
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Operation Annihilation A film documenting the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone when RUF rebels implemented “Operation Annihilate Every Living Thing” and “Operation Burn Freetown” on their way to capturing the capital city in January 1999. More than half of the invasion force was composed of children or teenagers who, after being abducted, abused, and sometimes drugged, were divided into burn house units, cut hand commandos, and bloodshed squads. When the Nigerian-led ECOMOG forces came to defend the city, the rebels withdrew, abducting more children to bolster their units. The film looks at the fate of these children, and ultimately the fate of Sierra Leone, by following two children as they attempt to re-integrate themselves into society: Sheriff Koroma who was abducted at the age of 11, but escaped the camps and is looking for his family through the National Tracing Program; and Ibrahim Barry Junior, 16 years old, who was abducted at the age of nine, drugged, and taught how to kill, eventually killing for six different rebel factions in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The film features interviews with journalist Sorious Samura, who stayed and survived the attacks in Freetown; Rogers, S.B. (War Council Chairman of the RUF), who is responsible for the abductions; former child soldiers Sheriff and Ibrahim, and their surviving family members; children with severed limbs in amputation camps; Kamajors leaders and Kamajors child soldiers; and Sierra Leonean government officials, experts, counselors, and therapists. English language, Date of production: 1998, Duration: 35 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009779 |
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Cry Freetown (a.k.a Out of Africa) “Cry Freetown” is an account of the victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone and a brutal portrayal of what happened in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, in January 1999. Journalist Sorious Samura shot the film at great risk to his own life, aware of the fact that the strong images he recorded were the only thing able to put Sierra Leone back on the international agenda. It includes very disturbing footage of the victims of the rebels, as well as brutal beatings of rebel suspects, including children and family members of the rebels, by the Nigerian peacekeepers. The film focuses on Moses, a mute orphan who has been mercilessly beaten by ECOMOG soldiers suspecting him of being a rebel soldier. The film features interviews with victims and survivors of the attacks as well as with Father Giuseppe Barton from the Family Homes Movement where Moses was living. English, English language, Date of air: 2000-02-03, Date of production: 2000, Duration: 28 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009780 |
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SLBS [1/2] / [1/2] Ardun Rashid Deen reports for SLBS/TV (Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service) about the aftermath of the civil war and its consequences for the civilians. The report includes interviews with amputees and survivors of the war as well as footage from the hospitals where the injured were being treated. It also features interviews with several Sierra Leonean officials, including former SLA leaders. The tape continues with raw footage documenting the aftermath of the killings and mass murder in Sierra Leone. English language, Date of production: 1998, Duration: 1 hour 33 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009781 |
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SLBS [2/2] Continuation of the raw footage documenting the killings and mass murder that took place in Sierra Leone during the 11-year-long civil war. It includes footage of and interviews with victims of the amputation squads, survivors of the war, witnesses of the atrocities, family members of the murdered ones, and soldiers from various fighting factions of Sierra Leone. Date of production: 1998, Duration: 50 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009782 |
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Kono: After the AFRC–RUF Retreat Television program aired on SLBS TV about the effects of the civil war on the lives of the Sierra Leoneans. The program focuses on the Kono district, a diamond-rich region which was targeted by the rebels. It includes footage of destroyed private and public property, and images of the aftermath of the lootings, maiming, raping, and killing of civilians that took place at the beginning of 1998. It also contains footage from February 12, 1998, when the ECOMOG troops arrived to Freetown, as well as interviews with town chiefs and villagers, soldiers, and officials, including Brgdr. Maxwell Khobe (Task Force Commander ECOMOG Sierra Leone). English language, Date of production: 1998, Duration: 40 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009782 |
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Killing in Sierra Leone Recording of executions in Sierra Leone. It includes footage of the condemned entering the truck, traveling to the destination, and being executed. At least six executions are recorded on this tape. Date of production: 1998, Duration: 13 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009783 |
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Insai Trobul Raw footage of the war in Sierra Leone which documents the movements of military troops, such as training, marching, entering villages, and fighting. It contains an interview with Foday Sankoh while hand-cuffed claiming that his strategy and military policy did not involve amputation, rape, and mass murder. English language, Date of production: 1998, Duration: 34 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009783 |
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Abdul Tejan-Cole Abdul Tejan-Cole is a Sierra Leonean legal practitioner and the Commissioner of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission since 2007. He worked as a trial attorney and appellate counsel in the Special Court for Sierra Leone and taught law at the University of Sierra Leone. The tape shows him at work in his office, handling files, meeting various clients, and listening to and solving complaints. It includes footage of Abdul Tejan-Cole on the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone, and in his house. Date of production: 1998, Duration: 53 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009784 |
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Mobutu, King of Zaire / Mobutu, roi du Zaire “Mobutu, King of Zaire” is a documentary film about Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, the former President of Zaire who held onto power for more than 30 years, from 1965 to 1997. Using extensive archival footage and interviews, the film offers a detailed account of Mobutu’s private and political life. The archival footage in the film includes, among others, the capture and maltreatment of Patrice Lumumba (Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1960); the repression of the student protest that took place in Kinshasha in June 1969; Marie-Antoinette Mobutu’s 32nd birthday party and images of Mobutu’s mistresses; scenes from parades praising Mobutu as well as demonstrations against him; and ceremonial meetings between Mobutu and several leaders of the world, including President Richard Nixon, President George H.W. Bush, Chairman Mao Zedong, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu, and King Baudouin I of Belgium. The film features interviews with Patrice Lumumba (Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1960), Mobutu Sese Seko (the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Zaire for much of his reign, from 1965 to 1997), Larry Devlin (CIA Chief, Congo), Aubert Mukendi (Mathematician), Sakombi Inongo (Minister of Information), Nimy Mayidika (Security Chief), Colonel de Tenbossche (President’s Paymaster), Lye Mudaba Yoka (Playwright), Pierre Janssen (President’s son-in-law), Alfred Cahen (Belgian Ambassador), Colonel Mallants (President’s Advisor), Gilles Sambwa (Governor National Bank), Kin-Kiey Mulumba (Minister of Information), Hugues Leclercq (Economic Advisor), Étienne Tshisekedi (Opposition Leader), Laurent Kabila (Rebel Leader), and Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa). French, English, English language, Date of production: 1999, Duration: 1 hour 16 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009785 |