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SUDAN / MARTIN BELL-MIA FARROW
STORY: SUDAN / MARTIN BELL-MIA FARROW
TRT: 5.02
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ZANDE / DINKA
DATELINE: 10-15 MARCH 2011, SOUTHERN SUDAN; ABYEI, AGOK, YAMBIO REGION, SUDAN,
15 MARCH, KUAJOK, SOUTHERN SUDAN
1. Wide shot, settlement for returnees in Kuajok
2. Pan right, tracking boy with homemade toy truck
3. Med shot, man placing branch beams for hut roof
4. Wide shot, hut under construction
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chol Bol, returnee:
“We are here in this condition because it is our place.”
6. Wide shot, Martin Bell and Mia Farrow interviewing returnee
7. Close up, returnee woman’s hands
8. Med shot, Martin Bell, Farrow and Returnee
9. Wide shot, Flora Antony, a returnee, arranging her belongings
10. Med shot, Flora bending down picking up items
11. Med shot, Flora arranging belongings
12. Med shot, crying child being measured
13. Med shot, child hanging by a scale on a tree and being weighed
14. Close up, weighing scale
15. Med shot, twins Mayar and Mojoi with grandmother
16. Close up, Baby Mojoi being weighed
17. Close up, Baby Mayar then pan up to reveal grandmother
15 MARCH 2011, ABYEI, SUDAN
18. Med shot, interior of empty hut
19. Wide shot, exterior empty hut
20. Wide shot, taken from a moving car, of empty Abyei streets and communities
14 MARCH 2011, ROUTE TO ABYEI, SUDAN
21. Med shot, Martin Bell speaking with IDP (Internally displaced person) man from Abyei
22. Close up, goods in truck
23. Wide shot, IDP man and truck
24. Wide shot, IDP man walks into frame and towards tree
25. SOUNDUP (English) Martin Bell, Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF:
“And all this she carried on her head?
26. Wide shot, woman and belongings
27. Close shot, Child’s face
14 MARCH 2011, AGOK, SUDAN
28. Wide shot, child friendly space, playroom
29. Med shot, interior of the playroom
30. Close shot, children in playroom
31. Close up, girl leading singing in playroom, Martin Bell in background
10-11 MARCH 2011, YAMBIO REGION, SUDAN
32. Wide shot, cars driving in forest
33. Wide shot, children around water pump slowly
34. SOUNDBITE (English), Mia Farrow, Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF:
”Everyone here has been displaced so they are here and they are afraid to return to their homelands and this water pump is now a source of clean water for them”
35. Med shot, interior of old hospital ward
36. Wide shot, motorcycle ambulance drives across the frame
37. Med shot, woman in motorcycle ambulance.
38. Wide shot, motorcycle ambulance with woman drives across the frame
39. Wide shot, motorcycle ambulance from front
40. Med shot, motorcycle ambulance driver
41. Wide shot, motorcycle ambulance driving along road
42. Wide shot, looking over IDP’s speaking with Mia Farrrow and Martin
Bell
43. Med shot, man cutting wood to make a fence and babies in the forefront
44. Close up, man’s face
45. Med shot, woman with child speaking
46. Med shot, Mia Farrow and Martin Bell interview girl ‘Grace’ abducted by LRA at transit centre in Yambio
47. Close shot, girls lips
48. Close shot, girl’s hands
49. Med shot, scar on Grace’s thigh
50. Wide shot, following Arrow Boys walking in the jungle in a row
51. Med shot, Arrow Boys with their weapons
52. Wide shot, Arrow Boys walking in the jungle on a patrol
53. Close up, Arrow Boy member with spear
54. Close up, steel tip spear then pulling back to reveal face of Arrow Boy
55. Wide shot, singing group of the Rainbow Community in Nzara
56. Med shot, children and families
57. Med shot, girl carrying sibling
58. Close up, boys clasped hands, with another boy dancing in the background
59. Med shot, girl dancing
60. Med shot, children dancing.
It looks like a refugee camp but IT isn’t.
12 and a half thousand people live here, out of a quarter of a million Southerners who have moved from the north in recent months. They’re not passing through – they’re staying, and these are the conditions they’ve come back to.
SOUNDBITE (English) Chol Bol, Returnee
“We are here in this condition because it is our place.”
We are in Kuajok with the actress Mia Farrow on a joint UNICEF mission. The question is: why they’ve come here
Flora Anthony is 18 and has lost two children in childbirth. This is home for herself, her husband, three sisters and 7 children. The outside stockade is their living room and kitchen, until the rains come. She’s here for her own safety.
The youngest arrivals are measured perhaps under protest – and weighed. Mayar and Mojoi severely under nourished twins, have gained a kilo in three weeks. They will survive, thanks to UNICEF – provided nutrients. Their mother died in childbirth. Their grandmother looks after them.
Empty homes and flapping tarpaulins are the signs of another migration, from Abyei, a dirt poor town that sits on top of an oilfield, on the border between north and south – and the likely flashpoint of the next war, if there is one. In three weeks, half its population have fled south, driven from their homes.
Down the road his family just arrived within the hour, all their possessions in the truck. They fear attacks by Arab nomads with strong links to Khartoum . Their home for the foreseeable future will be under a tree.
SOUNDBITE (English) MARTIN BELL, UNICEF UK Ambassador: ( talking to a woman)
”And all this she carried on her head?
Somehow she did. She and her 8 children. They too fled for their lives.
Further south in the town of Agok refugee children find safety in a playroom funded by UNICEF and Save the Children. From one end to another the soon-to-be-born nation of South Sudan looks in need of intensive care.
Deep in the bush in West Equatoria , the South Sudanese are doing what they can to counter the effects of the war.
SOUNDBITE ( English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador -
” Everyone here has been displaced… so they are here and they are afraid to return to their homelands and this water pump is now a source of clean water for them”
The hospital here was abandoned and looted ten years ago. Hence, the need for this life-saving contraption, the motor-cycle ambulance.
There are 17 of these built in South Africa, assembled in Sudan and provided by UNICEF at a cost of $10,000 US each. This way it will take an hour and a half to get anyone in need, usually a pregnant mother with complications, along the dirt road to hospital in the nearest town of Yambio.
They’ve been driven from their homes in waves in the south west of the country, up against the Congolese border, by bandits of the LRA, the Lord’s Resistance Army
When the LRA attacked she ran away with this child, then a baby, but had to leave her toddler behind and believes that he was killed.
This 12 year old girl – we’ll call her Grace - escaped after a year’s captivity, taken in her village then forced out of it with a group of adults at gun point. On a long march the adults were killed and the children kept alive to serve as porters, sex slaves or eventually soldiers. Grace was beaten – and worse. Her scars are of the mind as well as the body.
Apart from their over-stretched military, who is there to defend them?
The Arrow Boys, that’s who. A home guard formed in the community and armed, as the name suggests, with bows and arrows, plus a few antique shotguns. There are more than 3,000 Arrow Boys in this state alone and they go out on evening patrols. The arrows are barbed and steel tipped – and possibly useful in an ambush, but useless in a fire fight against the assault rifles and machine guns of the LRA.
Nearby in the town of Nzara , a community centre run by nuns for children and adults with AIDS/HIV has opened its doors to children who were former captives of the LRA and cannot find a home. There can be dark reasons for their homelessness. One of the children here – for obvious reasons we will not identify him – is a 14 year old boy who was forced by his captors to club his father to death.
Hope and despair, desperation and inspiration, are close companions here.
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