General information

Call No.:

350-3-1:50/1

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #50 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009763

Date of production

1994

Date

1994

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

French, English, Kinyarwanda

Duration

1 hour 46 min. 13 sec.

Notes

From 35'36" till the end of the tape the footage is black and white.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

The President of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, and the President of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, were killed together when their airplane was shot down on April 6, 1994, an event that triggered a wave of ethnic violence in both Burundi and Rwanda. The video describes the role of the UN as a peacekeeping force in these areas where massacres and genocide were taking place. The tape includes: UN footage of displaced people in Burundi and Burundian refugees in Rwanda; Rwandans fleeing Rwanda and taking refuge in Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) or Tanzania; images of the refugee camps and other temporarily built camps; interviews with UN officials and representatives of other aid agencies; testimonies of survivors of the massacres. The main focus of the video is Dr. Jose Ayala Lasso, then newly appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who visited Central Africa in April 1994 and had meetings with representatives of both parties in the conflict: Colonel Théoneste Bagosora (RAF) and General Augustin Bizimungu (Chief of RAF) on the one hand and Major General Paul Kagame (RPF) on the other. It also includes extensive footage with General Roméo Dallaire (Force Commander of UNAMIR) giving interviews and providing military briefings.