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Le FPR menace d'envahir la zone de protection mise en place par la France si l'armée ne livre pas les auteurs des massacres
Card Number 36307
Number
36307
Author
Matausch, Catherine
Author
Courtellemont, Marie-Pierre
Date
17 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940717
Time
19:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 19 heures
Title
Le FPR menace d'envahir la zone de protection mise en place par la France si l'armée ne livre pas les auteurs des massacres
Size
15313 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Public records
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- In Rwanda, another French soldier was wounded by a stray bullet.
- Meanwhile, Goma airport in eastern Zaire was hit by several mortar attacks. Ten refugees were killed.
- As a result, the airlift that delivers food aid has been suspended, while the number of Rwandan refugees is expected to reach one million soon.
- This particular mortar attack missed them. They will be able to continue their journey, fleeing again towards the Zairian border. They will take small steps to make their way through the soldiers, clutching their father's rags so as not to lose him in this human tide. That would be the ultimate despair: solitude in this wasteland that one hardly dares call an orphanage.
- They believe in a stroke of luck; they have found water. Muddy and stagnant, but water nonetheless. It will allow them to boil a few grains of corn while they wait for the humanitarian airlift planes. The first two landed today at the Zairian airport in Goma.
- Their mission: to provide food to the refugees, whose numbers are expected to increase. The Rwandan Patriotic Front has just entered the city of Gisenyi.
- They are threatening to invade the protection zone established by France this evening if the army does not hand over the perpetrators of massacres who have allegedly taken refuge there.
- Tutsi soldiers are already disarming Hutus en masse. But this is not enough for them in a country where people are dying of hunger but where there is clearly no shortage of weapons.
- Meanwhile, Goma airport in eastern Zaire was hit by several mortar attacks. Ten refugees were killed.
- As a result, the airlift that delivers food aid has been suspended, while the number of Rwandan refugees is expected to reach one million soon.
- This particular mortar attack missed them. They will be able to continue their journey, fleeing again towards the Zairian border. They will take small steps to make their way through the soldiers, clutching their father's rags so as not to lose him in this human tide. That would be the ultimate despair: solitude in this wasteland that one hardly dares call an orphanage.
- They believe in a stroke of luck; they have found water. Muddy and stagnant, but water nonetheless. It will allow them to boil a few grains of corn while they wait for the humanitarian airlift planes. The first two landed today at the Zairian airport in Goma.
- Their mission: to provide food to the refugees, whose numbers are expected to increase. The Rwandan Patriotic Front has just entered the city of Gisenyi.
- They are threatening to invade the protection zone established by France this evening if the army does not hand over the perpetrators of massacres who have allegedly taken refuge there.
- Tutsi soldiers are already disarming Hutus en masse. But this is not enough for them in a country where people are dying of hunger but where there is clearly no shortage of weapons.