General information

Call No.:

350-3-1:28/1

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #28 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009741

Date of production

1994

Date

1994

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, French, Kinyarwanda, English

Duration

42 min.

Notes

Warning: graphic images.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

The documentary, which includes eye-witnesses’ accounts of the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians, tells the story of the early days of the Rwandan crisis. It contains interviews with survivors including President Habyarimana's daughter, Marie-Rose Habyarimana, Rwandese Patriotic Front leaders, Paul Kagami and Theogene Rudasingwa, and former French humanitarian aid minister, Bernard Kouchner. Reporter Catherine Bond investigates the possibility that the carnage may have been a calculated act of genocide by the Rwandan government against the country's Tutsi minority. Other people interviewed in the film are: Dr. Olivier De Lassus (“Medecins du Monde”), Fiona l’Arbelesiter (BBC World Service Correspondent in Central Africa), Ltd. Tony Kabana (RPF), Lindsey Hilsum (foreign correspondent), Alex de Waal (British writer and researcher on African issue), Major Philbert Rwigamba (RPF), Jean-Pierre Chrétien (African Research Center), and Rakiya Omaar (African Rights).

Context

Associated Names

Bond, Catherine (Reporter)

Rekkas, Faria (Investigator)

Gallimore, Simon (Producer)

Channel 4 (Copyright holder, Producer)

Independent Television News (Producer)