General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:4/13

Part of series

HU OSA 350-3-2 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Africa: Sierra Leone

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #4 / No. 13

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009776

Date of production

1999-06-16

Date

1999

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

3 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

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.