General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:3/13

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #3 / No. 13

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009775

Date of production

2000-05-17

Date

2000

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

6 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

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.

Context

Associated Names

Reuters (Creator/Author)