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Dans les camps de réfugiés du Zaïre, ils sont plusieurs millions à attendre les secours. Mais pour le moment c'est la mort qui est au rendez-vous
Card Number 36544
Number
36544
Author
Roger-Petit, Bruno
Author
Mousset, Benoît
Date
21 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940721
Time
08:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 8 heures
Title
Dans les camps de réfugiés du Zaïre, ils sont plusieurs millions à attendre les secours. Mais pour le moment c'est la mort qui est au rendez-vous
Size
15577 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- Abroad, in the refugee camps of Zaire, millions of Rwandans are waiting for aid. But for now, death is what awaits them.
- Isolated in a camp, a suffering child, he might survive. A little further away, another child, he will likely die. Every day, every hour, the same scenes play out in these camps, where 1.2 million refugees are crammed together, or along the roads leading to the Zairian border.
- Today, the humanitarian situation is catastrophic: most refugees have been without shelter, food, water, or medical care for days. Dozens of the weakest among them have already died, claimed by diseases they could no longer fight off.
- Along the road to Goma, the airbase for Operation Turquoise, bodies wrapped in reed mats line the path.
- But the greatest shortage is water: daily needs are estimated at 30 million liters. Meeting this is currently impossible. Refugees are therefore forced to draw unsafe water from Lake Kivu, water that breeds disease.
- Meanwhile, on the tarmac at Goma airport, the airlift continues at a slow pace: 19 flights yesterday [July 20]. At this rate, according to humanitarian organizations, only one-tenth of the refugees' needs can be met.
- Isolated in a camp, a suffering child, he might survive. A little further away, another child, he will likely die. Every day, every hour, the same scenes play out in these camps, where 1.2 million refugees are crammed together, or along the roads leading to the Zairian border.
- Today, the humanitarian situation is catastrophic: most refugees have been without shelter, food, water, or medical care for days. Dozens of the weakest among them have already died, claimed by diseases they could no longer fight off.
- Along the road to Goma, the airbase for Operation Turquoise, bodies wrapped in reed mats line the path.
- But the greatest shortage is water: daily needs are estimated at 30 million liters. Meeting this is currently impossible. Refugees are therefore forced to draw unsafe water from Lake Kivu, water that breeds disease.
- Meanwhile, on the tarmac at Goma airport, the airlift continues at a slow pace: 19 flights yesterday [July 20]. At this rate, according to humanitarian organizations, only one-tenth of the refugees' needs can be met.