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Hier [15 mai] le convoi dans lequel se trouvait Bernard Kouchner a été pris pour cible

Card Number 31288

Number
31288
Author
Autheman, Marc
Author
Gringoire, Jean-François
Date
16 mai 1994
Ymd
19940516
Time
19:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 19 heures
Title
Hier [15 mai] le convoi dans lequel se trouvait Bernard Kouchner a été pris pour cible
Subtitle
Le pays, lui, s'enfonce dans une terrible guerre civile. On évoque maintenant un bilan de l'ordre de 500 000 morts.
Size
21039 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Public records
INA
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- New fighting in Kigali. Bernard Kouchner, on the spot, spoke of a veritable genocide. The convoy in which he was, yesterday [May 15], was targeted: shooting with automatic weapons in the south of the capital Kigali. No one was hurt.
- The country is sinking into a terrible civil war, a bloodbath. We are now talking about a death toll of around 500,000! And there is an urgent need to come to the aid of thousands of refugees who no longer have anything. The example of two nuns settled in the center of the country. They try to cope with the situation with the means at hand.
- It is a place so far spared in Rwanda. A retreat held by two nuns, a Swiss and a French where the Tutsi, who had the chance to escape the murderous fury of the Hutu militiamen, come to take refuge, exhausted. The danger persists but the Sisters have remained.
- The European nuns are assisted by Rwandan Sisters, essentially Tutsi like the majority of the local clergy. Each exit to redistribute the little food or medicine available can cost them their lives.
- Drinking water is running out, cholera threatens and refugees continue to arrive. But the Red Cross was finally able to set up a surgical unit here, the only one in the region.