General information

Call No.:

350-3-1:59/2

Part of series

HU OSA 350-3-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Africa: Rwanda

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #59 / No. 2

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009772

Date of production

1995

Date

1995

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, French, Kinyarwanda

Duration

47 min.

Notes

The first 7’ are also available in the Middle East collection (HU OSA 350-4-1) at FA container #167.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Clip 1: BBC World News Report about Rwandese refugees returning home. BBC Correspondent Ben Brown reports from the Rwanda-Zaire border on the situation of the returnees who cross Goma, Zaire to arrive to Gisenye, Rwanda. Owen Bennett-Jones reports from Geneva about UNHCR’s role in the crisis and the possibility of closing the Rwandese border. Jane Standley reports from Goma on the situation of the several hundreds of thousands of people marching towards the border. Clip 2: Presenter Mikle Embley provides a summary of the world news on BBC World. It contains a short report about the situation at the borders of Rwanda. Clip 3: A series of unrelated BBC news: report about President Boris Yeltsin’s health, elections in Thailand, and weather forecast. Clip 4: Mike Hanna reports for CNN from Goma, Zaire on the conditions at the borders between Rwanda and Zaire, as well as the conditions in and around Goma refugee camp. From Gisenyi, Rwanda, Christiane Amanpour reports live about the guerrilla fighting and military trainings taking place in the refugee camps. Clip 5: A BBC World news report on the refugees returning to Rwanda and the refugees who decided to stay in Zaire. It includes a report by correspondent Dan Brown from Goma, Zaire on the makeshift hospitals in the camp: the lack of medical supplies, the work of the Red Cross medical staff, and the fate of the abandoned and orphaned children. From Gisenyi, Rwanda, Correspondent Roger Herring reports about the conditions in the villages of Rwanda and the life the returnees have once home. Clip 6: CNN report about the refugees returning to Rwanda from Zaire. It includes footage of people too weak to walk home and who are being assisted by ICRC members. Clip 7: BBC World news report about the joint plans by the Interahamwe militia and the army of the former Rwandan government to reinvade Rwanda. Jim Fish reports on the future of the defeated Interahamwe. It includes an interview with Patrick Smith, the editor of “Africa Confidential.” Clip 8: A CNN “Central Africa in Crisis” report from near Gisenyi, Rwanda on the refugees returning home to Nyundo, a former massacre site. It includes interviews with survivors of the Nyundo massacres who talk about the returnees of whom some are former militia members and perpetrators of the genocide. It features a report by Christiane Amanpour from Nyundo, Rwanda. Clip 9: 3’ of irrelevant content. Clip 10: George Aligaya reports for BBC World on Rwanda’s moral obligation to bring to justice the people involved in the 1994 massacres and the humanitarian need to reabsorb the returning citizens. It continues with a report by George Eykyn on a British based company that was shipping arms to Hutu militias despite the UN imposed arms embargo. It features interviews with Dr. Malcolm Chalmers from University of Bradford and Robin Cook, Opposition Labour Foreign Affairs. Clip 10: BBC World report on the implications of the U.S. veto in the UN. It features interviews with Mark Thiessen (U.S. Foreign Relations Ctte, Washington) and Barnaby Mason (BBC Diplomatic Correspondent). Clip 11: BBC correspondent Ben Brown reports on the exodus and return of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees, the necessity of international assistance for Rwanda, and the potential scale of the international intervention force. It includes an interview with Ray Wilkinson from UNHCR. The news program continues with Ray Wilkinson live from Gisenye who discusses the U.S.’s decision not to send combat troops to Rwanda followed by the Rwandan Ambassador to Great Britain, Dr. Zac Nsenga, live in the studio, who explains why Rwanda does not favor an international force. Clip 12: CNN news report on the type of involvement the U.S. was willing to provide to Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide. It features interviews with William Perry (U.S. Defense Secretary) and Ken Bacon (U.S. Defense Dept. Spokesman).

Context

Associated Names

BBC (Copyright holder, Creator/Author, Producer)

CNN (Copyright holder, Creator/Author, Producer)