General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:3/10

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #3 / No. 10

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009775

Date of production

1996-01

Date

1996

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

2 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Nick Gowing reports for Channel 4 News on the uncertain elections planned to take place in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. The video includes shots of a skeleton hanging from a post and a skull in the road; footage of a tent city for the internally displaced and the homeless; a shot of Captain Strasser; images of Brigadier Bio; footage of destroyed buildings along a road; footage of RUF leader Foday Sankoh at a rebel camp; and shots of government troops preparing their armed jeep for patrol. The report features an interview with Krishnan Srinivasan (Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations), who explains that the delegation is fairly optimistic about the future elections.

Context

Associated Names

Insight TV (Creator/Author)

APTV (Creator/Author)

MSF (Creator/Author)