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L'horreur au Rwanda : l'aéroport de Kigali serait tombé aux mains des rebelles, les morts se comptent par centaines de milliers
Card Number 28913
Number
28913
Author
Chazal, Claire
Author
Jacquemin, Marine
Author
Froissart, Thierry
Author
Tuban, Gilles
Date
22 mai 1994
Ymd
19940522
Time
20:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 20 heures [3:22]
Title
L'horreur au Rwanda : l'aéroport de Kigali serait tombé aux mains des rebelles, les morts se comptent par centaines de milliers
Subtitle
Après sa visite au Rwanda, Philippe Douste-Blazy a plaidé pour la mise en place urgente de zones de sécurité.
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13632722 bytes
Source
Public records
Type
Journal télévisé
Language
FR
Abstract
- Horror in Rwanda: Kigali airport is said to have fallen into rebel hands, the dead number in the hundreds of thousands. There are no more words to describe what the Rwandan population is experiencing, subjected to the civil war. The fighting caused a terrible exodus, particularly with the border with Tanzania.
- The Rusumo Falls. For several weeks the Akagera river has been carrying these visions of horror relentlessly [we can see Minister Douste-Blazy looking from the Rusumo bridge at the bodies carried by the river]. For the doctor who became a minister, this first humanitarian mission was a shock. Philippe Douste-Blazy, Minister for Health: "We obviously have to be there to try to make contact with each other so that this madness stops".
- When one is a minister, and moreover of the French government, showing off with one or the other party would cause a diplomatic incident.
- In the Benaco refugee camp, which has 200,000 people or more, survival is urgent. The Minister is impressed by the efficiency of humanitarian organizations. The camp is predominantly Hutu.
- In order not to offend anyone, Philippe Douste-Blazy must now go to a Tutsi camp in Kirundo (Burundi). What is striking here is the silence. The population lives prostrate. Most of their village or their relatives have been massacred, often in front of their eyes. Philippe Douste-Blazy: "for me, coming is explaining to them that we are still thinking of them".
- The Rusumo Falls. For several weeks the Akagera river has been carrying these visions of horror relentlessly [we can see Minister Douste-Blazy looking from the Rusumo bridge at the bodies carried by the river]. For the doctor who became a minister, this first humanitarian mission was a shock. Philippe Douste-Blazy, Minister for Health: "We obviously have to be there to try to make contact with each other so that this madness stops".
- When one is a minister, and moreover of the French government, showing off with one or the other party would cause a diplomatic incident.
- In the Benaco refugee camp, which has 200,000 people or more, survival is urgent. The Minister is impressed by the efficiency of humanitarian organizations. The camp is predominantly Hutu.
- In order not to offend anyone, Philippe Douste-Blazy must now go to a Tutsi camp in Kirundo (Burundi). What is striking here is the silence. The population lives prostrate. Most of their village or their relatives have been massacred, often in front of their eyes. Philippe Douste-Blazy: "for me, coming is explaining to them that we are still thinking of them".