General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:4/20

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #4 / No. 20

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009776

Date of production

2000-05-08

Date

2000

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

4 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Footage from May 8, 2000, when demonstrators took to the streets of Freetown and protested outside the gates of Foday Sankoh's Freetown compound. It includes images of the armed rebels opening fire on the crowd and footage of UN soldiers trying to manage the crowd. It features an interview with Foday Sankoh, the RUF leader. The video continues with foreign nationals gathered at a hotel waiting to be evacuated. It also includes an interview with Zeinab Watfy, a British citizen, who has been injured during the fighting in Freetown.

Context

Associated Names

APTN (Creator/Author)