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Massacres, pillages, pilonnages à l'arme lourde : la situation continue de pourrir au Rwanda

Card Number 29889

Number
29889
Author
Ockrent, Christine
Author
Billet, Isabelle
Author
Thibault, Éric
Date
11 avril 1994
Ymd
19940411
Time
23:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 23 heures [1:08]
Title
Massacres, pillages, pilonnages à l'arme lourde : la situation continue de pourrir au Rwanda
Subtitle
La plupart des Occidentaux ce soir ont été évacués.
Size
3829932 bytes
Source
Public records
INA
Type
Journal télévisé
Language
FR
Abstract
- Massacres, looting, shelling with heavy weapons: the situation continues to deteriorate in Rwanda. Most Westerners tonight have been evacuated.
- The massacres multiply in Kigali and the corpses litter the streets of the Rwandan capital. A mortar shell fired at a hospital killed 27 people.
- For four days, violent fighting has pitted the Tutsi minority against government troops with a Hutu majority. These clashes between the two main ethnic groups in Rwanda have already caused more than a thousand deaths.
- Today, most Westerners, and in particular the 620 French, have managed to leave Rwanda under the protection of paratroopers. The first 43 of them arrived last night at Roissy airport.
Comment
Images of the machete massacre taken by the British cameraman Nick Hughes from the French school of Kigali are inserted at the beginning of the report. They were therefore taken on April 11, while the French soldiers are still occupying this school.