General information

Call No.:

350-3-1:53/1

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #53 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009766

Date of production

1994-04

Date

1994

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, French, Dutch; flemish, Kinyarwanda

Duration

20 min.

Notes

Warning: graphic images. Occasionally poor image quality.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Clip 1: It contains footage of young militiamen with machetes standing by corpses scattered all around the streets of Kigali checking passes and identities of those passing by; UN and RPF vehicles circulating on the streets of Kigali; military training and shooting; refugees walking down the streets; and Jean Kambanda, Prime Minister of the interim government, giving an interview. Clip 2: Dutch TV reports from Burundi, from the Kanyaru-Haut entry point to Rwanda, on the corpses floating in the Akagera river which poses health risks to the population residing nearby and using the water. Clip 3: A report on the orphan children and RPF soldiers trying to find a place in the overcrowded refugee camps which are unable to provide the minimum basic living conditions. Clip 4: Raw footage shot on the border with Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) of U.S. soldiers distributing water to the refugees. Clip 5: Footage of refugees on the road fleeing Kigali, Rwanda to reach refuge in the camps in Zaire. Clip 6: Recording of the mass exodus of Rwandan refugees crossing Zaire’s border and reports on the conditions in the camps where almost 3000 people die on daily basis due to cholera epidemics. A substantial number of refugees are Hutus who refuse to return home in fear of reprisal attacks at the hands of the RPF. The report includes also: footage with the remains of the president's plane after the crash on April 6, 1994; shots of the Presidential Guards looting and killing Tutsi; French and Belgian paratroopers in Rwanda evacuating the foreigners; images of Kigali under siege; scenes from the Benaco camp in Tanzania. Clip 7: It includes: footage of human corpses obstructing the roads in Kigali; survivors of the Interahamwe machete attacks being rescued by RPF troops; interview with a survivor of a massacre.

Context

Associated Names

Reuters (Creator/Author)

WTN (Creator/Author)

BBC (Creator/Author)