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UZBEKISTAN / AID
STORY: UZBEKISTAN / AID
TRT: 1.52
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: UZBEK / NATS
DATELINE: 27 JUNE 2010, ANDIJAN, UZBEKISTAN
1. Wide shot, relief flight arriving at Andijan airport
2. Wide shot, aircraft taxiing to stand
3. Close up, rear ramp of aircraft being lowered to start unloading
4. Pan right, workers arriving to start unloading
5. Various shots, workers unloading relief supplies
6. More shots of boxes being loaded onto truck.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Michel Delmotte, UNICEF Representative, Republic of Uzbekistan:
“So I think the assistance is very needed the other side of the border now. They will serve people in Kyrgyzstan and follow the return of flow of refugees.”
8. Wide shot, loaded truck driving off from back of aircraft
9. Med shot, truck leaving airport
10. Various shots, truck in convoy escorted by US Embassy, UNICEF and
Govt. of Uzbekistan representatives
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Norland, Ambassador to Republic of Uzbekistan, United States:
“Any situation that we can imagine, however, the need for continued humanitarian relief is going to be very large.”
12. Various shots, families with children at a local park in Andijan
13. Wide shot, newly born baby in maternity unit at Andijan Perinatal
Centre
14. Wide shot, Uzbek mother Mashura Mamakhanova lying in bed speaking with a UNICEF staff
15. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Mashura Mamakhanova, mother:
“The attacks started and everyone from the hospital left and there was only the chief doctor protecting us. But then it was clear we weren’t safe, and someone helped me get home. But my home had been burned, only the walls remaining. I stayed with someone else for three days, but without any health care, I decided to cross the border, and that’s when the ambulance brought me here.”
16. Wide shot, special care room at Perinatal Centre
17. Pan right, from Mashura to incubator with her newly born daughter
18. Close-up, mother’s hand holding baby’s
19. Med shot, mother and incubator
20. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Mashura Mamakhanova, mother:
“I want my husband to name our daughter but I don’t know what has happened to him.”
21. Pan right, from baby’s face to hand being held by mother
22. Med shot, mother and incubator
A special charter flight arriving in a troubled part of the world bringing badly needed relief supplies, in a fast changing humanitarian emergency.
On board 32 tonnes of health and hygiene essentials, enough to supply the needs of thousands of families for three months.
Arriving in the Andijan region bordering Kyrgyzstan, these supplies are destined for thousands of minority Uzbeks.
They were displaced in recent violent clashes, and have now returned to Kyrgyzstan to rebuild their lives amid widespread destruction, especially around the city of Osh.
Supporting the effort, the United States Government chartered the plane to bring in the supplies.
The fear for the international community is this region could again witness another refugee influx, if political developments in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan produce more violence.
Life is now apparently back to normal in Andijan, but the unprecedented arrival and then sudden departure of some 80 thousand refugees, has still left a sense dislocation.
And in the local hospitals, some refugees still remain.
In this maternity unit, Mashura Mamakhanova, is recovering after giving birth to her first child.
She was being treated in a clinic in Osh for complications in her pregnancy when the violence erupted.
When they started attacking, all the medical staff fled, she told us. And with her house destroyed, and no sign of her husband, she had no choice but to flee herself across the border.
Still largely bed-bound the highlight in Mashura’s day is the few moments she gets to spend with her baby daughter.
Cared for in an incubator, she was delivered by surgeons ten weeks prematurely, a tiny life who still doesn’t have a name.
Mashura wants her husband to name her.
But where he is, she admits, she doesn’t know. And he doesn’t know he’s now father to a baby girl.
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