General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:3/5

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #3 / No. 5

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009775

Date of production

2000-05

Date

2000

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Afghan persian, dari

Duration

2 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

This video contains footage of government soldiers at Rogberi Junction camp. The area was the scene of intense fighting throughout the entire month of May in 1998, and is also the place where the decimated bodies of the UN soldiers were discovered in mid-May and where two foreign journalists, Kurt Schork of Reuters and Miguel Gil Moreno of APTN, were killed in an ambush by the RUF. The video also contains footage shot at Lungi Airport on May 18, 2000, when Zambian and Kenyan UN peacekeepers were released by the RUF; a still of Alan Smith, a 55 year-old British aid worker from Birmingham who was kidnapped at an RUF checkpoint in Songo on May 7, 2000; footage of British SAS soldiers on a jeep looking for Smith in the area around Songo; and footage of British Gurkhas patrolling the area around Lungi Airport on May 16, 2000.

Context

Associated Names

Independent Television Network (ITN) (Creator/Author)