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Sur les bords du lac Victoria, ce sont des milliers de cadavres qui sont charriés par les eaux
Card Number 31328
Number
31328
Author
Autheman, Marc
Author
Dumont, Joël-François
Date
23 mai 1994
Ymd
19940523
Time
19:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 19 heures [1:20]
Title
Sur les bords du lac Victoria, ce sont des milliers de cadavres qui sont charriés par les eaux
Subtitle
Témoignage macabre des massacres ethniques qui en six semaines ont décimé près d'un demi-million de personnes au Rwanda voisin.
File name
Size
4906465 bytes
Source
Public records
Type
Journal télévisé
Language
FR
Abstract
- Admission of the UN's powerlessness in Rwanda: a special envoy was to go to Kigali today. A ceasefire was even announced to allow this visit. In fact the situation remains impossible to control on the spot.
- And on the shores of Lake Victoria, there are now thousands of corpses that are washed away by the waters. Particularly terrible images of this civil war which continues.
- The images that reach us from Uganda are unbearable: tens of thousands of corpses, most of them in an advanced state of decomposition, wash up every day on the shores of Lake Victoria.
- In three weeks, 27,000 bodies have already been fished out and put in mass graves. Macabre testimony to the ethnic massacres which in six weeks decimated nearly half a million people in neighboring Rwanda.
- Some corpses of men but also of women and children still have their hands tied behind their backs and carry bullet or stab wounds. Others are horribly mutilated.
- The consumption of water from the lake, even boiled, as well as the product of fishing have been strongly discouraged by the authorities who fear epidemics.
- After declaring the three southwestern districts bordering Lake Victoria a disaster area, the government of Kampala has now launched an appeal for international health assistance to enable it to face a truly dramatic situation.
- And on the shores of Lake Victoria, there are now thousands of corpses that are washed away by the waters. Particularly terrible images of this civil war which continues.
- The images that reach us from Uganda are unbearable: tens of thousands of corpses, most of them in an advanced state of decomposition, wash up every day on the shores of Lake Victoria.
- In three weeks, 27,000 bodies have already been fished out and put in mass graves. Macabre testimony to the ethnic massacres which in six weeks decimated nearly half a million people in neighboring Rwanda.
- Some corpses of men but also of women and children still have their hands tied behind their backs and carry bullet or stab wounds. Others are horribly mutilated.
- The consumption of water from the lake, even boiled, as well as the product of fishing have been strongly discouraged by the authorities who fear epidemics.
- After declaring the three southwestern districts bordering Lake Victoria a disaster area, the government of Kampala has now launched an appeal for international health assistance to enable it to face a truly dramatic situation.