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SOMALIA / GUTERRES
STORY: SOMALIA / GUTERRES
TRT: 2:08
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SOMALI / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2-3 DECEMBER 2010, GALKAYO, BULE BALE IDP CAMP, SOMALIA
1. Various shots, group of people gathering outside tents
2. Med shot, Aisha walking in the camp
3. Med shot, IDP children eating rice from a pot in front of a shelter
4. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Aisha, Displaced Person:
“The assistance (of the international community) is delayed and meanwhile, our youth are getting armed and are killing one another.”
5. Wide shot, UNHCR cars transporting the HC, passing the border of Puntland into Central Somalia (South Galkayo)
6. Med shot, High Commissioner walking in Hiraan IDP Camp
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Gutteres, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“One of the reasons of my visit is not only to better know the problems that you face, but also to draw the attention of the international community to the enormous suffering of the Somali people.”
8. Wide shot, the High Commissioner meeting with elders
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Gutteres, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“There are acute diseases and chronic diseases, but the disease of Somalia has been chronic, but always acute.”
10. Various shots, IDP children eating rice from a pot in front of a shelter
11. Various shots, IDP man pushing a wheel barrow full of jerry cans
12. Med shot, UNHCR distributing NFI kits to IDPs in Hala Bokad camp
13. Med shot, IDP girl walking carrying a child on her back and several jerry cans
14. Med shot, IDP woman passing in front of latrines
15. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Aisha, Displaced Person:
“We are the mothers of those who are dying. We are their wives and their sisters. We want the international community to help to be in peace and become united.”
16. Various shots, sunset in Hala Bokad IDP camp
The constant fighting between government forces and armed opposition groups has displaced millions of people in Somalia, more than anywhere else in the world.
Aisha arrived in Bule Bale camp for the internally displaced (IDP) 13 years ago. She fled from Mogadishu with her husband and their 13 children.
Her view of the future is grim.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Aisha, Displaced Person:
“The assistance (of the international community) is delaying and meanwhile, our youth are getting armed and are killing one another.”
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, on a recent visit to Puntland and South Central regions of Somalia, described this humanitarian situation as alarming.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Gutteres, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“One of the reasons of my visit, is not only to better know the problems that you face, but also to draw the attention of the international community to the enormous suffering of the Somali people.'
He talked about the suffering of the people.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Gutteres, High Commissioner for Refugees:
'There are acute diseases and chronic diseases, but the disease of Somalia has been chronic, but always acute'
Malnutrition is rampant and one in every seven children dies before the age of five.
Access to water is difficult. People have to walk for kilometers to reach water points.
UNHCR is here helping with distributions of emergency relief items but insecurity hinders its efforts.
Many families go without food and water.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Aisha, Displaced Person:
''We are the mothers of those who are dying. We are their wives and their sisters. We want the international community to help [those who are fighting] to be in peace and become united.'
Without the help of the international community, few here see any resolution to wars that have left so many without homes, a livelihood, and a future.
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