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+4:3 1st trial in France over Rwanda's genocide opens with former intelligence chief on trial
The first trial in France over Rwanda's genocide opened on Tuesday in a Paris court, two decades after a killing spree that left at least half a million people dead.
Pascal Simbikangwa, a 54-year-old former intelligence chief, faces...
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RWANDA: GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ATTEND BURIAL OF 20,000 VICTIMS
Rwandan/Nat
Three years after the start of the massacres which saw more than half a (m) million dead, the people of Rwanda have been burying their dead.
Top government officials have attended a burial ceremony for some 20-thousand...
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Rose Kabuye new conference after court appearance
1. Wide of Rwandan presidential aide, Rose Kabuye entering
2. Various of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rose Kabuye, Rwandan presidential aide:
"What I can only say is that I'm innocent. I came here because I was arrested in...
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Reaction to trial of Rwanda's former deputy intelligence chief
1. Top shot of traffic and people in street
2. Various shots of traffic
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox Pop, no name given, Local resident:
"This is a welcome relief because many Rwandans have suffered directly or indirectly as a result of...
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GNS WEEKLY NEWS: RWANDA: FILM
Natural/English/Spanish/Swedish
A British cameraman hopes his first feature film will bring the horrors of the Rwandan genocide to a wider audience.
The movie, called "100 Days", is a Rwandan-backed film about the former Hutu...
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Zaire/Rwanda - Looting in Goma
Tutsi rebels were in control on Tuesday (5/11) of the eastern Zairean town of Goma, where Zairean volunteers said they had taken nearly 300 bodies off the streets after heavy fighting. Numerous armed men, whom residents of Goma were...
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RWANDA: REFUGEES LATEST SITUATION (2)
TYPE: English/Nat
Two aid workers were injured in a land mine explosion in Zaire Monday.
The mine is thought to have been planted by Hutu militants who have tried to derail all repatriation efforts.
The explosion came as UN officials...
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DR Congo soldiers fleeing with displaced ahead of advancing rebels
Outskirts of Goma, seven miles (12 kilometres) from Kibati
1. UN peacekeepers' compound, tanks in defence position
2. UN peacekeepers camp, people standing in front of gate
3. Displaced civilians running from Kibati towards Goma Town,...
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Rwanda - Tutsi villagers massacred
On the eve of US President Bill Clinton's visit to Rwanda, authorities confirmed a massacre of 40 Tutsi villagers in the commune of Kanama, 110 kilometres northwest of the capital of Kigali. Government officials say an unspecified number...
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Thousands of IDPs escape clashes in DR Congo
Soldiers backed by United Nations helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles continued to battle with rebels on Saturday around a strategic army garrison near a mountain gorilla reserve in the east of the Democratic Republic of...
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Annan meets Kibaki, governmentt spokesman
1. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (red tie) shakes hands with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, Kibaki moves on to shake hands with South Africa's former first lady Graca Machel, then with former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa...
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Rebels, military equipment, dead bodies in Goma after it was taken by rebels
1. M23 soldier stands in front of crowd gathered in football stadium in central Goma, listening to speech of M23 spokesman Colonel Vianney Kazarama,
2. Close of ammunition and gun
3. Close of soldier
4. Mid of Colonel Vianney Kazarama...
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Genocide suspect pleads not guilty to massacre charge
1. Wide exterior of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) building
2. Close up of sign ICTR
3. UN flag
4. Wide shot, Gregoire Ndahimana (accused) with his lawyer in court room
5. Close up of Gregoire Ndahimana
6. Wide...
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Sarkozy first French president to visit Rwanda in 25 years
1. Various of French President Nicolas Sarkozy laying a wreath at the Memorial of the Rwandan genocide ++SLIGHT JUMP CUT BETWEEN TWO SHOTS++
2. Close of Sarkozy, tilt down to wreath
3. Wide of scene, dignitaries leaving
4. Various of...
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Zaire - Rwandan Hutu Leadership Want Power Share
Army officers from Rwanda's defeated government - which is widely
blamed for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of minority
Tutsis - told U.N. officials on Sunday (30/9) the exiled Hutu
leadership would return home if it was given a...
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ZAIRE: ZAIREAN REBELS MOVE IN AROUND BENI ENROUTE TO BUNIA
Beni, Kigali, Goma, Tanzania, Ngara and File
6th December 1996:
1. Wideshot of countryside around Beni
2. Close-up equator sign
3. Villagers passing a Banyamulenge checkpoint
4. Close-up Banyamulenge soldier
5. Banyamulenge troops...
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RWANDA: GOMA: REFUGEES FLEE AS FIGHTING INTENSIFIES
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The city of Goma in Zaire is being drained of people as the fighting intensifies between Zairean government forces and Tutsi rebels.
Thousands of refugees are fleeing and all the roads out of Goma are packed with people ...
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Kagame leads memorial marking 20th anniversary of start of genocide
Thousands of Rwandans packed the country's main sports stadium on Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of a devastating 100-day genocide.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were among those...
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AFRICA: LEADERS DISCUSS CONGO CRISIS DURING SUMMIT
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The continuing strife in the Democratic Republic of Congo is dominating a summit of Africa's leaders in France.
But now Congolese President Laurent Kabila appears to be edging closer to a dialogue with his adversaries,...
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UN observers see suspected Rwandan troops in east
1. MONUC (French acronym - UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo) compound entrance
2. UN car leaving compound
3. Compound fence
4. UN flag flying from compound
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mhand Ladjouzi, head of MONUC's North Kivu office:...
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ZAIRE: GOMA: ABANDONED CHILDREN ARE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF WAR
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Zaire continues to plunge into chaos after the weekend loss of the country's third- largest city, Kisangani, to rebel forces.
Among the innocent victims of war in this central African nation are numerous abandoned...
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SYND 22 7 76 THE EFFECTS OF THE PETROL SHORTAGE IN RWANDA
Rwanda is on the brink of economic collapse due to the deteriorating situation in neighboring Uganda.
1. pan countryside and people pushing barrows
2. ws shack roofs
3. ms overloaded truck travels along road past people sitting on...
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DR Congo gov spokesman on arrest of rebel leader Nkunda, vox pop
Rubaya, 22 January 2009
1. Congolese people cheering Rwandan troops arriving in Rubaya town
2. Rwandan troops walking down street
FILE: Jomba, 29 November 2008
3. Laurent Nkunda, formerly head of National Congress for the Defence of the...
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Zaire/Rwanda - Exiles' Offensive Plans Denied
Claims that Rwandan exiles in Zaire are re-arming in preparation
for an offensive against mainly Tutsi government forces in Rwanda
have been denied by Hutu military commanders. The report, released last week, said the exiled army was...