General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:4/18

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #4 / No. 18

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009776

Date of production

1999-03

Date

1999

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

5 min.

Notes

Warning: graphic images.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

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.

Context

Associated Names

APTN (Creator/Author)