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L'ancien gouvernement hutu dispose toujours avec la radio d'un formidable outil pour effrayer les réfugiés et les inciter à fuir
Card Number 36543
Number
36543
Author
Raymond, Francine
Date
23 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940723
Time
12:00:01
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 12 heures [1/3]
Title
L'ancien gouvernement hutu dispose toujours avec la radio d'un formidable outil pour effrayer les réfugiés et les inciter à fuir
Subtitle
Mais c'est le choléra qui reste néanmoins aujourd'hui au Zaïre la crainte majeure de tous.
Size
20121 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- Rwanda this morning: one dead and ten seriously injured following the explosion of two grenades at the Zaire border. Border guards are apparently unaware that Rwandan refugees now have the right to return to their country.
- Yet cholera remains the primary concern for everyone in Zaire today.
- They are gathering what little strength they have left to move a bit further north. But for many, it is too late; cholera is spreading at an alarming rate, with 1,780 new cases recorded since last night [July 22] in the refugee camps around Goma.
- Doctors and nurses from humanitarian organizations are forced to count the dead. In the last two days alone, 68,000 bodies have been buried in the city of Goma. Can they still be saved? Action must be taken quickly, very quickly, to halt this devastating epidemic.
- Thirty-five tons of cholera-fighting equipment, shipped by Doctors Without Borders, arrived overnight. This includes equipment for pumping and filtering water to make it potable, as the disease is transmitted through water contaminated by corpses.
- The United States is expected to quickly establish an airlift and deploy several thousand troops to Zaire.
- The major challenge thereafter will be to persuade these millions of refugees to return to Rwanda. The former Hutu government still possesses a powerful tool, radio, to frighten the refugees and incite them to flee.
- The UN is preparing to launch an information campaign to encourage refugees to return home. However, this will take time, and cholera continues to ravage the refugee camps.
- Yet cholera remains the primary concern for everyone in Zaire today.
- They are gathering what little strength they have left to move a bit further north. But for many, it is too late; cholera is spreading at an alarming rate, with 1,780 new cases recorded since last night [July 22] in the refugee camps around Goma.
- Doctors and nurses from humanitarian organizations are forced to count the dead. In the last two days alone, 68,000 bodies have been buried in the city of Goma. Can they still be saved? Action must be taken quickly, very quickly, to halt this devastating epidemic.
- Thirty-five tons of cholera-fighting equipment, shipped by Doctors Without Borders, arrived overnight. This includes equipment for pumping and filtering water to make it potable, as the disease is transmitted through water contaminated by corpses.
- The United States is expected to quickly establish an airlift and deploy several thousand troops to Zaire.
- The major challenge thereafter will be to persuade these millions of refugees to return to Rwanda. The former Hutu government still possesses a powerful tool, radio, to frighten the refugees and incite them to flee.
- The UN is preparing to launch an information campaign to encourage refugees to return home. However, this will take time, and cholera continues to ravage the refugee camps.