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Des hommes ont ouvert le feu sur un convoi des Nations unies. Il y avait dans ce convoi Bernard Kouchner

Card Number 31124

Number
31124
Author
Amar, Paul
Author
Olliéric, Dorothée
Date
16 mai 1994
Ymd
19940516
Time
20:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 20 heures [2:34]
Title
Des hommes ont ouvert le feu sur un convoi des Nations unies. Il y avait dans ce convoi Bernard Kouchner
Subtitle
L'évêché de Kabgayi est devenu un refuge pour des milliers de rescapés des massacres.
Size
8858852 bytes
Source
Public records
INA
Type
Journal télévisé
Language
FR
Abstract
- The situation is not improving in Rwanda: men opened fire on a United Nations convoy three kilometers from Kigali. There was in this convoy Bernard Kouchner. The former French minister had to, with the other occupants, leave the vehicle to take shelter. Bernard Kouchner is safe and sound. But a spokesman for the UN mission was injured in the face.
- And the UN mission protested to the Rwandan Patriotic Front suspected of being behind this attack.
- You should know that despite the worsening of the situation, or because of this worsening, men and women remain in Kigali to alleviate the distress of the inhabitants. Nuns in particular.
- A bishopric in the midst of barbarism. Today, the site has become a refuge for thousands of survivors of the massacres. They are perhaps 25,000 trying to survive in more than precarious conditions. For them, 25 Rwandan Sisters and their superiors, a Swiss and a Frenchwoman, have chosen to stay. One of the Superior Sisters: "In a certain way we say to ourselves that the people who died during this war are the ones who have the best life now. When we see all the suffering of those who are still left now".
- Of course there are wounded. But there are also more and more sick people: old people and children, especially suffering from tuberculosis. A Red Cross doctor was able to get here, a feat.
- A Rwandan Sister: "I am not afraid of dying because I went to help others". Help others. But what the Sisters of Kabgayi do not say is that a few hundred meters away are the extremist militias. And every day, they come here to look for new victims to then massacre them without witnesses.
Comment
The 20 o'clock news of France 2 of April 7, 1994 is visible in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKDw20_pw4