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Cette nuit, l'importante caserne gouvernementale du camp Kanombe était encerclée par les rebelles rwandais

Card Number 31166

Number
31166
Author
Amar, Paul
Author
Joly, Françoise
Author
Mavic, Florence
Date
22 mai 1994
Ymd
19940522
Time
13:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 13 heures [1:59]
Title
Cette nuit, l'importante caserne gouvernementale du camp Kanombe était encerclée par les rebelles rwandais
Subtitle
Peut-être un demi-million de personnes sont mortes depuis le début de la guerre civile.
Size
5000247 bytes
Source
Public records
INA
Type
Journal télévisé
Language
FR
Abstract
In Rwanda the government forces are in difficulty: the rebels of the Patriotic Front have taken control of Kigali airport. The inhabitants of the capital still live in terror.
- If for four days the fighting has been concentrated around Kigali airport, it is because the logic of war requires, the place is strategic.
- But the intensity of the shelling was also due to another reason: very close to the tracks is the Kanombe camp, a large government barracks. That night it was surrounded by Rwandan rebels.
- For the Blue Helmets, still present at this airport, the situation has become delicate. The UN wanted to make it a neutral zone to transport food and men. But it is too late: the rebels, since this morning, are masters of the place and refuse the ceasefire proposed by the United Nations.
- And it seems that in the city of Kigali the situation is deteriorating again dramatically, as a resident of the Rwandan capital told us a few moments ago by telephone: "I am very afraid because the massacres are not finished. A lady who had a child on her back, they asked her to take the child away. And then they were massacred in front of our house".
- According to humanitarian organizations, 100,000, 200,000, maybe half a million people have died massacred since the beginning of this civil war.