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| Call Number | Description |
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| DVD-ROM #1 | |
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392-2-3:1/1
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[Sullia Bockarie Interview, Testimony / Food Distribution Freetown] The first part of the video shows an informal ceremony in a village where people are gathered for the signing and notarizing of a document. There is then an interview with a young man from Sierra Leone, Sullia Bockarie, who was taken prisoner and beaten severely while he was a refugee in Guinea. The video ends with various shots of Freetown and the countryside of Sierra Leone [mostly shot from car?], including gutted and burned-out buildings, village market. English language, Date of production: 2002-02, Duration: 1 hour 1 min. Digital version available | HU OSA 392-2-3_001 |
| DVD-ROM #2 | |
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392-2-3:2/1
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[Waterloo Refugee Camp in Sierra Leone] Julia Harrington of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in The Gambia is given a tour of a refugee camp in Waterloo, outside of Freetown, Sierra Leone. The tour leader, John Foday, discusses many aspects of life in the refugee camp such as health and education, employment, the institutional structure of the camp, as well as general quality of life for the refugees. There is footage of the camp and refugees taken throughout the interview, mostly taken while walking, so that the camera is moving much of the time. While the structures are ramshackle, for the most part the refugees look relatively healthy and happy. English language, Date of production: 2002-07, Duration: 50 min. Digital version available | HU OSA 392-2-3_002 |
| DVD-ROM #3 | |
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392-2-3:3/1
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[Interviews about Sierra Leone Refugees Who Have Fled to Guinea] aka [Freetown Trip] The subject of this video is the dangerous conditions faced by Sierra Leoneans living as refugees in Guinea. It features an interview with a woman who was brutally gang-raped by Guineans as well as an interview with John Foday, a Sierra Leone refugee who describes the difficult conditions facing all refugees who, threatened by violence, were forced to flee Guinea and return to Sierra Leone prematurely, forcing them into transit refugee camps. English language, Date of production: 2002-07, Duration: 56 min. Digital version available | HU OSA 392-2-3_003 |
| DVD-ROM #4 | |
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392-2-3:4/1
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[Interviews with 2 Mauritanian Refugees in New York] This footage is of interviews with two Mauritanian refugees presently living in New York. One woman describes the events following the assassination of her husband who was one of hundreds of soldiers killed in Mauritania in 1990 during the government's attack on Mauritanians of black and Senegalese descent. There is then discussion of the political context leading up to this event as well as the work of the organization FLAM (Forces de Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie). FLAM is working to resist the government's discriminatory and oppressive treatment of Mauritanian minorities. English, French language, Date of production: 2002-11-02, Duration: 49 min. Digital version available | HU OSA 392-2-3_004 |