General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:3/11

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #3 / No. 11

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009775

Date of production

1995-03

Date

1995

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

8 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Channel 4 News report featuring Tanya Sillem who talks about the devastating effects of the first years of civil war in Sierra Leone. It includes a short history of the origins of the conflict, its connections with Liberia, and footage of: destroyed property; RUF soldiers led by Foday Sankoh in the jungle; Foday Sankoh with rebels in various villages; government soldiers training and trying to adapt to the rebels' tactics; new recruits training outside of Freetown; mutilated civilians in hospital; Sankoh standing over the arsenal of weapons that he maintains, stolen from forces opposing the RUF; images of the civil war in Liberia; rebel child soldiers standing around or posing for the camera; rebels led by Sankoh singing the RUF anthem; European hostages taken by the RUF (six British nationals, three Swiss, and one German kidnapped during various attacks on mining companies in the southeast in early January 1995); and SLA soldiers marching and chanting. It features interviews with Captain Valentine Strasser (Head of state, Sierra Leone) and Charles Taylor (President of Liberia), among others.