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Le cri d'alarme des militaires français sur place a été entendu : les ONG ont décidé de retourner au Rwanda
Card Number 35280
Number
35280
Author
Bobillier, Laurence
Author
Peaster, Philippe
Author
Ghesquière, Hervé
Date
8 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940708
Time
12:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 12 heures
Title
Le cri d'alarme des militaires français sur place a été entendu : les ONG ont décidé de retourner au Rwanda
Subtitle
Sur plus d'un million de déplacés de la guerre civile, 500 000 sont déjà concentrés dans la région de Gikongoro.
Size
22769 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Public records
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
en
Abstract
- Rwanda: Refugees continue to flow into the humanitarian zone created by the French military. Nearly 500,000 people are concentrated around Gikongoro. The town is therefore facing serious problems; food is in short supply, and officials from Operation Turquoise are appealing to humanitarian organizations.
- The arrival yesterday [July 7] of French troops in the village of Kibeho, on the edge of the humanitarian zone. The challenge: to evacuate 80 orphans and the priest who was caring for them to this zone. A priest suspected by the Hutu of being pro-Tutsi.
- We are in the Gikongoro region, therefore bordering the French humanitarian zone. A region with a catastrophic humanitarian situation: of more than a million people displaced by the civil war, 500,000 are already concentrated here. Hundreds of thousands more are pouring in, fleeing the fighting and the RPF advance.
- Displaced people destitute of everything. Nutritional needs are estimated at 500 tons of food per day. This is impossible to deliver at the moment. Only about 100 tons have arrived in 10 days. The situation is all the more catastrophic for the moment given that few humanitarian organizations are present on the ground. Most are hesitant to work in an area close to the troops of the former Hutu government.
- Alain Juppé, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with heads of humanitarian organizations this morning. The alarm of the French military on the ground has been heard: the NGOs have decided to return to Rwanda. Alain Michel, from the NGO "Équilibre": "The urgent need is to transport as much food as possible, as many hygiene products as possible, to deliver them, to support people morally, to support them materially. It's an emergency that is indescribable, the situation is so dramatic". Jean-Louis Machuron, from the NGO "Pharmacists Without Borders": "It's not with the French army, it's not with the French army, it's with the displaced civilian populations and victims of this conflict. There is an emergency and I think we'll realize it very quickly if nothing is done. Between 500,000 or even a million displaced people, it's clear that hundreds of tons of food aid need to be taken there. And if this food aid doesn't arrive, we'll very quickly fall into a process of famine, epidemics, etc.".
- The arrival yesterday [July 7] of French troops in the village of Kibeho, on the edge of the humanitarian zone. The challenge: to evacuate 80 orphans and the priest who was caring for them to this zone. A priest suspected by the Hutu of being pro-Tutsi.
- We are in the Gikongoro region, therefore bordering the French humanitarian zone. A region with a catastrophic humanitarian situation: of more than a million people displaced by the civil war, 500,000 are already concentrated here. Hundreds of thousands more are pouring in, fleeing the fighting and the RPF advance.
- Displaced people destitute of everything. Nutritional needs are estimated at 500 tons of food per day. This is impossible to deliver at the moment. Only about 100 tons have arrived in 10 days. The situation is all the more catastrophic for the moment given that few humanitarian organizations are present on the ground. Most are hesitant to work in an area close to the troops of the former Hutu government.
- Alain Juppé, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with heads of humanitarian organizations this morning. The alarm of the French military on the ground has been heard: the NGOs have decided to return to Rwanda. Alain Michel, from the NGO "Équilibre": "The urgent need is to transport as much food as possible, as many hygiene products as possible, to deliver them, to support people morally, to support them materially. It's an emergency that is indescribable, the situation is so dramatic". Jean-Louis Machuron, from the NGO "Pharmacists Without Borders": "It's not with the French army, it's not with the French army, it's with the displaced civilian populations and victims of this conflict. There is an emergency and I think we'll realize it very quickly if nothing is done. Between 500,000 or even a million displaced people, it's clear that hundreds of tons of food aid need to be taken there. And if this food aid doesn't arrive, we'll very quickly fall into a process of famine, epidemics, etc.".