KENYA: FUNERAL OF REUTERS TV SOUNDMAN ANTHONY MACHARIA, KILLED BY SOMALIS ANGERED AFTER U.N. ATTACK ON WARLORD'S POSITION KILLED DOZENS OF SOMALI CIVILIANS.

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  • Title: KENYA: FUNERAL OF REUTERS TV SOUNDMAN ANTHONY MACHARIA, KILLED BY SOMALIS ANGERED AFTER U.N. ATTACK ON WARLORD'S POSITION KILLED DOZENS OF SOMALI CIVILIANS.
  • Date: 20th July 1993
  • Summary: UTHIRU, KENYA (JULY 20, 1993) 1. GV: CROWD ASSEMBLED OUTSIDE CHURCH 0.05 2. GV'S: REUTERS COLLEAGUES AND ANTHONY'S FAMILY GATHERED ROUND COFFIN 0.33 3. MV: PHOTOGRAPH OF ANTHONY ON COFFIN 0.35 4. GV/MV: MOTHER OF VICTIM HOS MAINA WITH ANTHONY'S MOTHER JANE IN FRONT OF PORTRAIT OF ANTHONY 0.39 5. MV: HOS MAINA'S WIFE LUCY COMFORTING JANE MACHARIA 0.49 6. GV: COFFIN CARRIED INTO CHURCH/ CHURCH 1.04 7. MV: REUTERS TELEVISION'S NAIROBI BUREAU CHIEF MOHAMED AMIN DELIVERING EULOGY (ENGLISH) 1.38 8. CU: PHOTOGRAPH OF ANTHONY 1.44 9. MV/CU: REUTERS CAMERAMAN PATRICK MUIRURI PAYING TRIBUTE TO ANTHONY (ENGLISH) 4.03 10. GV/MV/CU: REUTERS TELEVISION'S NEWS EDITOR RALPH NICHOLSON SAYING THE WORK OF JOURNALISTS MADE A DIFFERENCE (ENGLISH) 4.47 11. GV: FAMILY GATHERED ROUND COFFIN 4.54 12. GV: COFFIN CARRIED OUT OF CHURCH 5.00 13. MV: MOHAMED AMIN STANDING NEXT TO JANE MACHARIA 5.05 14. MV: MOHAMED SHAFFI EMBRACING JANE MACHARIA 5.11 15. GV: MOHAMED SHAFFI, FAMILY AND COLLEAGUES CARRY COFFIN TO GRAVE SIDE, ANTHONY'S BROTHER CARRYING CROSS IN FRONT OF PROCESSION 5.23 16. GV: PRIESTS RECITING PRAYERS BESIDE GRAVE/ COFFIN LOWERED INTO GRAVE 5.39 17. GV: FAMILY, COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS GATHERED ROUND GRAVE/ JANE MACHARIA AND HER SONS/ COFFIN 6.00 18. GV: COFFIN COVERED WITH EARTH/ JANE MACHARIA HELPING TO FILL GRAVE 6.09 19. GV: JANE MACHARIA AND ANTHONY'S FATHER PLACE WREATH ON GRAVE 6.26 20. GV: ANTHONY'S BROTHERS AND SISTER LAY WREATH 6.33 21. GV: MOHAMED AMIN AND MOHAMED SHAFFI LAY WREATHS/ MOHAMED AMIN'S SON SALIM AMIN LAYS WREATH 6.47 22. GV: PATRICK MUIRURI AND REUTERS SOUNDMAN JOHN KINYUA LAY WREATHS 7.01 23. GV: FRIENDS OF FAMILY LAYING WREATH 7.10 24. GV: REUTERS MANAGER EAST AFRICA, DAVID BLOOM (BALDING WITH GLASSES) AND REUTERS MANAGER AFRICA CHRIS INWOOD, LAYING WREATHS 7.24 25. GV: REUTERS MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA EDITOR GRAHAM STEWART LAYING WREATH 7.33 26. GV: RALPH NICHOLSON LAYING WREATH 7.46 27. GV: REUTERS CHIEF CORRESPONDENT FOR EAST AFRICA JOHN CLAYTON LAYING WREATH 7.56 28. GV: FRIENDS OF FAMILY HOLDING WREATH 7.58 29. GV: MOHAMED AMIN AND MOHAMED SHAFFI LAYING WREATHS 8.04 30. GV: CROSS PLACED AT HEAD OF GRAVE/ CAMERAMAN 8.12 31. GV: GRAVE COVERED WITH WREATHS 8.24 32. GV: MOURNERS GATHERED ROUND GRAVE 8.32 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 7: MOHAMED AMIN: "IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS HE ID A FANTASTIC JOB, PARTICULARLY IN SOMALIA, AND WAS NEVER ONCE FRAID TO BE IN THE THICK, AND BE IN DANGEROUS SITUATIONS. NOW HE BEST WAY FOR US TO REMEMBER HIM IS TO CONTINUE THE PROFESSION E SO DEARLY LOVED AND TO HELP COMFORT AND HELP HIS FAMILY, ARTICULARLY HIS YOUNG BROTHERS AND SISTERS." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 12: PATRICK MUIRURI: "DURING THE LAST SIX MONTHS F HIS TIME WE BECAME CLOSE COLLEAGUES WORKING TOGETHER IN OMALIA. WE ALSO BECAME VERY CLOSE FRIENDS, AND HIS TRAGIC AND NTIMELY DEATH IS A DREADFULL LOSS TO HIS FRIENDS, FAMILY AND TO LL OF TELEVISION NEWS. MY TRIBUTE TO MY DEAR FRIEND ANTHONY. I NOW I'M LEAVING HERE A BETTER MAN KNOWING YOU THIS WAY. THE HINGS I COULD'NT DO BEFORE NOW I CAN, AND I'M LEAVING HERE A ETTER MAN. THESE WORDS (INDISTINCT) ARE FROM THE SONG "A BETTER AN" COULD HARDLY ESCAPE YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU ARE IN MOGADISHU. SPECIALLY WHEN YOU TALK TO (INDISTINCT) YOU ARE ALMOST EMEMBERING HIS VISIT AND THE RELEVANCE OF THIS SONG AS FOR THE ORK YOU WERE DOING THERE. YOU WERE INFORMING PEOPLE OF THE PLIGHT F THE SOMALIS, SO THAT IN TIME THEY WOULD BE HELPED, BUT MAYBE HEY SWA THIS IN A DIFFERENT WAY, THEY DID NOT WAIT FOR YOU TO CCOMPLISH YOUR MISSION. THERE WERE MANY BUT YOU WERE ONLY SIX, UCKILY TWO OF YOU ESCAPED, BUT YOU DAN, HOS, AND HANSI, ALL MY RIENDS WERE UNFORTUNATE, HOW I SHALL MISS YOU ALL. I STILL ANNOT FORGET HOW PATRICK AND I WERE SANDWICHED BETWEEN THE TALIANS AND THE SOMALIS AND IN THE PROCESS THREE ITALIANS DIED, OU RESPONDED BY TELLING ME THIS PLACE IS VERY DANGEROUS WE NEED O KEEP OUR HEADS DOWN, THEN WE PARTED. PATRICK AND I BOARDED A LIGHT TO NAIROBI, SHAFFI AND YOU ARE LEFT. LITTLE DID I KNOW I OULD BE SEEING YOU FOR THE LAST TIME. TONY YOU TRIED YOUR BEST UT THEY WERE FASTER THAN YOU. THEY CAUGHT AND KILLED YOU, YOU AD DONE NOTHING WRONG. YOU WERE JUST DISCHARGING YOUR DUTIES. WILL MISS YOU, NOT JUST AS A DEAR (INDISTINCT), BUT ALSO AS A RIEND WHOM I SHARE AN OFFICE WITH. EVERYBODY AT REUTERS ELEVISION WILL MISS YOU. MACHARIA YOU ARE GONE, BUT YOUR SWEET OICE AND HANDSOME FACE WILL NEVER FADE FROM OUR MEMORIES. AND WE RE LEFT REMEMBERING FROM GOD WE CAME, AND TO GOD WE RETURN." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 13: RALPH NICHOLSON: "THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IN WEEK THAT WE HAVE BEEN CALLED TOGETHER TO MOURN ONE OF OUR RIENDS AND ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES. WHY THREE, FOUR YOUNG MEN HAD O DIE MAKES ME VERY FRUSTRATED, AND IN THIS CASE VERY ANGRY, BUT CANNOT FIND AN ANSWER, THIS ONE TIME WHEN I REALLY WANT AN NSWER. THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THE WORK OF ANTHONY AND IS FRIENDS MAKES A DIFFERENCE. IT IS VERY CLEAR TO ME THAT NTHONY WILL BE SADLY MISSED AND REMEBERED HERE IN KENYA. BUT I UGGEST TO YOU THAT HE WILL BE MISSED AND REMEMBERED BY A MUCH IDER FAMILY." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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  • Location: UTHIRU, NEAR NAIROBI, KENYA
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