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STORY: UN / RWANDA GENOCIDE ADVANCER
TRT: 1.47
SOURCE: UNTV / IRIN / UNHCR / UNICTR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 MARCH 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT 2011, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
28 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"The people and government of Rwanda have shown resilience and dignity in managing the trauma of this appalling and preventable tragedy. I encourage them to continue promoting the inclusive spirit and dialogue needed for healing, reconciliation and recovery."
FILE / UNTV / OCTOBER 2007, KIGALI, RWANDA
3. Various shots, aerial view of Rwanda
4. Wide shot, Rwanda skyline
FILE / UNTV / 1994, RWANDA
5. Various shots, Rwanda during genocide
28 MARCH 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
The United Nations is committed to preventing similar tragedies. In recent years we have seen growing support among the international community for the emerging doctrine of the responsibility to protect. The international Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other international courts are sending a strong signal. The world will not tolerate impunity for gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Preventing genocide is a collective and individual responsibility we must remain ever vigilant.”
FILE / UNICTR / 16 NOVEMBER 2009, ARUSHA, TANZANIA
7. Med shot, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) headquarters
8. Various shots, Judges entering inside the courtroom
FILE / UNHCR / MAY 2004, RWANDA
9. Various shots, pile of machetes
FILE / UNTV / DATE UNKNOWN, RWANDA
10. Pan left, doorway to skeletons in the room
FILE / IRIN / JUNE 2005, GIKONGORO, RWANDA
11. Wide shot, man entering room at the Murambi technical school genocide memorial
Thursday (7 April) marks the 17th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a video message, honoured the memory of the more than 800,000 people murdered in the 1994 massacre.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"The people and government of Rwanda have shown resilience and dignity in managing the trauma of this appalling and preventable tragedy. I encourage them to continue promoting the inclusive spirit and dialogue needed for healing, reconciliation and recovery."
In 1994, Rwanda’s ethnic Hutu militia armed with machetes, clubs and spears took over the streets of the country slaughtering minority Tutsis, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates died, mostly by machete, during a period of less than 100 days.
During the genocide, the United Nations (UN) Security council withdrew most of the 2,500 UN peacekeepers in Rwanda. In 2000, the Council accepted responsibility for failing to prevent the 1994 genocide.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The United Nations is committed to preventing similar tragedies. In recent years we have seen growing support among the international community for the emerging doctrine of the responsibility to protect. The international Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Court and other international courts are sending a strong signal. The world will not tolerate impunity for gross violations of Human Rights and international humanitarian law. Preventing genocide is a collective and individual responsibility we must remain ever vigilant.”
According to official estimates, the number of people suspected of having participated in the genocide could exceed 700,000. The most important suspects, those accused of orchestration and genocide, continue before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
