General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:4/14

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #4 / No. 14

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009776

Date of production

1995-05

Date

1995

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

4 min.

Notes

Warning: graphic images

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Footage shot in early May 1995 in Sierra Leone when RUF had control over most of the country. It contains footage with a government soldier at a checkpoint in Kenema in the southeast of Sierra Leone, holding a human skull on the end of a stick; footage of SLA troops being trained by mercenaries on the outskirts of Freetown; images of RUF prisoners at the military headquarters at Cockerill; and footage of children in an orphanage in Kenema. It features an interview with Berhanu Dinka (UN Special Envoy to Sierra Leone), who talks about the peace negotiations between the RUF rebels and the government, then led by Valentine Strasser of NPRC (National Provisional Ruling Council).