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Exode massif de centaines de milliers de réfugiés qui se pressent de plus en plus en direction de la frontière du Zaïre
Card Number 36259
Number
36259
Author
Leclerc, Gilles
Author
Peaster, Philippe
Date
15 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940715
Time
19:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 19 heures
Title
Exode massif de centaines de milliers de réfugiés qui se pressent de plus en plus en direction de la frontière du Zaïre
Subtitle
Sur initiative de la France, le Conseil de sécurité a donc exigé un cessez-le-feu immédiat et sans préalable.
Size
20582 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Public records
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- Dramatic situation in Rwanda: a massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees is increasingly pressing towards the border with Zaire. The UN, at France's request, is calling for an immediate ceasefire on the ground.
- Pursued by the fighting, government soldiers and Hutu civilians are fleeing the inexorable advance of the RPF.
- On Wednesday [July 13], the Tutsi of the Rwandan Patriotic Front took Ruhengeri, the last stronghold held by the troops of the former regime. Since then, a human tide of refugees has been flowing towards the Zairean border.
- Here, on the other side in Zaire, Goma, the border city, is overwhelmed by the influx, and humanitarian organizations are stretched to their limits. Samantha Bolton of Doctors Without Borders: "In just one day the situation has become catastrophic. This morning there was nobody here. Now there are 250,000. Tomorrow [July 16] there will be nearly a million, at a rate of 600 arrivals per minute".
- The challenge: to stop this mass exodus and avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. At the initiative of France, the Security Council last night demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and recommended the resumption of political dialogue in Rwanda.
- The UN is also calling for the mobilization of all available international resources to provide emergency aid to the civilian population.
- Pursued by the fighting, government soldiers and Hutu civilians are fleeing the inexorable advance of the RPF.
- On Wednesday [July 13], the Tutsi of the Rwandan Patriotic Front took Ruhengeri, the last stronghold held by the troops of the former regime. Since then, a human tide of refugees has been flowing towards the Zairean border.
- Here, on the other side in Zaire, Goma, the border city, is overwhelmed by the influx, and humanitarian organizations are stretched to their limits. Samantha Bolton of Doctors Without Borders: "In just one day the situation has become catastrophic. This morning there was nobody here. Now there are 250,000. Tomorrow [July 16] there will be nearly a million, at a rate of 600 arrivals per minute".
- The challenge: to stop this mass exodus and avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. At the initiative of France, the Security Council last night demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and recommended the resumption of political dialogue in Rwanda.
- The UN is also calling for the mobilization of all available international resources to provide emergency aid to the civilian population.