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La fin des combats ne signifie pas un retour à une vie normale pour les millions de Rwandais qui ont fui leur pays

Card Number 36089

Number
36089
Author
Mourgues, Anne
Author
Feist, Herade
Date
20 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940720
Time
07:30:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 7 heures 30
Title
La fin des combats ne signifie pas un retour à une vie normale pour les millions de Rwandais qui ont fui leur pays
Size
16189 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Public records
INA
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- In Rwanda, the situation is worsening daily: with over 1.5 million refugees, humanitarian organizations are overwhelmed. Aid is trickling in. Five to ten times more resources are needed to help the population.
- In Kigali, Rwanda's new leaders are consolidating their power. Yesterday [July 19], Pastor Bizimungu and his government were sworn in. The new Hutu president pledged to restore peace.
- But the end of the fighting does not mean a return to normal life for the millions of Rwandans who have fled their country. In the refugee camps in Zaire, humanitarian catastrophe is imminent.
- Here in Goma, men are fighting for food. Dysentery, dehydration, and perhaps soon famine are ravaging these refugee camps.
- In Goma, over a million people are trying to survive. Humanitarian organizations are overwhelmed. Yesterday [July 19], cargo ships chartered by the UN landed at Goma airport, bringing some food supplies.
- But these supplies are only temporary. The exodus continues. 400,000 new refugees began entering Zaire yesterday. Tomorrow, perhaps more. Nothing seems able to deter them from fleeing their country.