APTV Global Video Wire, North America Update: Tensions Rising in the Capital
General information
- Call No.:
-
350-3-2:4/12
- Part of series
- HU OSA 350-3-2 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Africa: Sierra Leone
- Located at
- BetaSP NTSC #4 / No. 12
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00009776
- Date of production
- 1997-06-11
- Date
- 1997
- Level
- Item
- Primary Type
- Moving image
- Language
- English
- Duration
- 1 min.
- Notes
- Warning: graphic images.
Content
- Form/Genre
- Television program
- Contents Summary
- 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.