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Sur les routes et les sentiers du Rwanda, des milliers de gens fuient l'avance des troupes tutsi du FPR
Card Number 35274
Number
35274
Author
Hintermann, Mémona
Author
Peaster, Philippe
Date
10 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940710
Time
12:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 12 heures
Title
Sur les routes et les sentiers du Rwanda, des milliers de gens fuient l'avance des troupes tutsi du FPR
Subtitle
L'aide alimentaire est pour l'instant impossible à acheminer sans la mobilisation des organisations humanitaires.
Size
19612 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
en
Abstract
- On the roads and trails of Rwanda, thousands and thousands of people are fleeing the advance of the RPF's Tutsi troops. And among these fugitives are the militiamen who have committed the massacres. A horrific situation that the French army is trying to cope with.
- The exodus, the debacle. There are hundreds of thousands of them, mostly Hutu. Women, children, the elderly, but also militiamen and lost soldiers of the old regime. Barefoot, carrying what little they have left, fear in their stomachs, they have been fleeing for days. They are fleeing the fighting and the RPF advance.
- We are in Rushashi, about forty kilometers west of Kigali, the Rwandan capital, which has been in the hands of what can no longer be called rebels for a week.
- An entire population is marching toward the humanitarian zone controlled by French troops. An area already overwhelmed: in less than a week, the number of refugees in western Rwanda has risen from 800,000 to nearly 1.5 million. French authorities, the ICRC, and the UN have been sounding the alarm for several days about the humanitarian catastrophe.
- On the ground here, near the Zairean border, French soldiers can only provide medical aid.
- There remains the enormous food problem. 500 tons of food per day are needed. This is impossible to deliver at the moment without the mobilization of humanitarian organizations.
- The exodus, the debacle. There are hundreds of thousands of them, mostly Hutu. Women, children, the elderly, but also militiamen and lost soldiers of the old regime. Barefoot, carrying what little they have left, fear in their stomachs, they have been fleeing for days. They are fleeing the fighting and the RPF advance.
- We are in Rushashi, about forty kilometers west of Kigali, the Rwandan capital, which has been in the hands of what can no longer be called rebels for a week.
- An entire population is marching toward the humanitarian zone controlled by French troops. An area already overwhelmed: in less than a week, the number of refugees in western Rwanda has risen from 800,000 to nearly 1.5 million. French authorities, the ICRC, and the UN have been sounding the alarm for several days about the humanitarian catastrophe.
- On the ground here, near the Zairean border, French soldiers can only provide medical aid.
- There remains the enormous food problem. 500 tons of food per day are needed. This is impossible to deliver at the moment without the mobilization of humanitarian organizations.