General information

Call No.:

392-2-4:21/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-2-4 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: Rencontre Africaine pour La Défense des Droits de l'Homme

Located at

DVD-ROM #21 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-4_021

Date of production

1998

Date

1998

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

French

Duration

3 min.

Notes

Dakar [Footage: Raw; Partners: RADDHO]

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

Sadikh Niass of RADDHO continues his visits to various refugee sites around Senegal and interviews teachers of refugees and the refugees themselves. The second part of the tape focuses on a group of Liberian refugees amidst a hunger strike, protesting the poor and unstable conditions in which they are forced to live. They voice their complaints against the UNHCR and describe how they have been treated like barbarians and bandits, since their arrival in Senegal five to ten years ago. In the first section of the video, there are shots in and around a school-in the yard and inside the classroom. The teacher in this school is interviewed (who has 61 students), and he speaks of a young Rwandan refugee student who was quite brilliant. The second part of the tape focuses on the Liberian refugees who are in the middle of a hunger strike, protesting the conditions in which they have been forced to live, in Dakar. Various men are interviewed and articulately and vehemently state their grievances.

Context

Associated Names

WITNESS (Copyright holder)

RADDHO (Copyright holder)