SENEGAL: AFTER FIGHTING FOR FRANCE SENEGAL'S SURVIVING WAR VETERANS SEEK RIGHTFUL PAYMENT OF THEIR PENSIONS FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

Record ID: 208386

  • Title: SENEGAL: AFTER FIGHTING FOR FRANCE SENEGAL'S SURVIVING WAR VETERANS SEEK RIGHTFUL PAYMENT OF THEIR PENSIONS FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
  • Date: 15th January 2003
  • Summary: DAKAR, SENEGAL (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS: OF WAR VETERAN OUSMANE KASSE MAKING MILITARY MEDALS IN HIS STUDIO. (3 SHOTS) 0.10 2. MV/ CRANE UP: FINISHED MEDALS DISPLAYED IN GLASS CASE WHILE OUSMANE WORKS BEHIND THEM 0.18 3. CU: OF OUSMANE GLUING PIECES OF COLOURED CLOTH ONTO BADGE. 0.21 4. MV: (SOUNDBITE) (French) WAR VETERAN OUSMANE KASSE SAYING: "All the medals tell a story, but you must know how to find it. Each one of them have a date, a name, a country and a reason." 0.33 DAKAR, SENEGAL (FILE:1960) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 5. MLV: (BLACK & WHITE) PRESIDENT LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR OF SENEGAL SHAKING HANDS WITH FRENCH PRESIDENT CHARLES DE GAULLE. 0.37 6. VARIOUS ( BLACK & WHITE) OF SENEGALESE WAR SOLDIERS. (6 SHOTS) 0.48 DAKAR, SENEGAL (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 7. MV/CU: OF OUSMANE PINNING BADGES ONTO JACKET. 0.55 8. MV: OUSMANE BUTTONING JACKET THEN LOOKS AT HIMSELF IN MIRROR. 1.00 9. MLV: OUSMANE WALKING OUT OF HOUSE TO SIT IN CHAIR. 1.06 10. CU: OUSMANE KASSE. 1.10 11. CU: OUSMANE'S MEDALS ON HIS JACKET. 1.12 12. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) OUSMANE KASSE SAYING: "The French authorities continue to cling to the money that they should have paid to us. But up until now nothing has been done." 1.20 PARIS, FRANCE (DEC 2002) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 13. WS/TILT: FROM FRENCH FLAG TO WAR VETERANS COMMEMORATION PLAQUE. 1.26 14. LAS/WS: FLOWER WREATH LAYING BEFORE PLAQUE. 1.30 15. VARIOUS: OF MANNEQUIN WEARING SOLDIERS UNIFORM. (2 SHOTS) 1.35 16. MV/PAN: MILITARY BADGES DISPLAYED IN THEIR CASES. 1.39 17. HAMLAOUI MEKACHERA, THE FRENCH STATE SECRETARY FOR WAR VETERANS, EXPLAINING A BRASS MEDAL IN HIS HANDS 1.45 18. CU: BRASS MEDALS ON DISPLAY STANDS. 1.47 19. MV: MEDALS AND BOOKS ABOUT THE WAR. 1.51 20. CU: BOOKS ABOUT THE WAR. 1.52 21. MV: (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH SECRETARY FOR WAR VETERANS, HAMLAOUI MEKACHERA SAYING: "France wants to honour its conscience. All war veterans in Paris, Dakar, Saigon or Algiers and with the same degree of injury or having served the same time of service should have the same purchasing power." 2.06 22. CU/WS: OF EXTERIOR OF FRENCH PARLIAMENT BUILDING THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. 2.10 23. WS:PEOPLE WALKING IN STREET. 2.14 24. LAS/MV: FRENCH FLAGS FLYING AT FULL MAST OUTSIDE BUILDING. 2.18 25. VARIOUS: OF EXTERIOR OF MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS. (3 SHOTS) 2.27 26. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH SECRETARY FOR WAR VETERANS, HAMLAOUI MEKACHERA SAYING: "They're addressing an injustice by replacing it with another because if the cost of living here was higher than in Paris, they'd have to do something, and that's the irony of it." 2.40 27. WS: EXTERIOR OF CATRED. 2.45 28. MV: CATRED EMPLOYEE EXPLAINING POLICY TO CLIENT. 2.49 29. MV: STEPHANIE SEGUES ATTENDING TO AFRICAN MAN. 2.54 30. CU: DOCUMENTS. 2.59 31. VARIOUS: OF AFRICAN MAN LOOKING AT DOCUMENTS AND HANDING ONE OVER TO STEPHANIE. (3 SHOTS) 3.11 32. MV: (SOUNDBITE) (French) CATRED'S STEPHANIE SEGUES SAYING: "The Diop ruling of the 30th November 2001 tried to end the discrimination against foreign nationals, but the previous government disregarded it, and the current one disregards it too." 3.23 DAKAR, SENEGAL (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 33. WS/CU: OF EXTERIOR OF SENEGAL'S NATIONAL OFFICE FOR WAR VETERANS. 3.29 34. CU/ZOOM OUT/MV: NGOMA TOURE, AMADOU DIOP'S WIDOW HOLDING A BLACK AND WHITE PICTURE SHOWING HER HUSBAND IN THE ARMY. 3.38 35. CU: FRAMED CERTIFICATE HONOURING AMADOU DIOP'S SERVICE IN THE FRENCH ARMY. 3.40 36. MV: NGOMA TOURE HOLDING UP A BUNCH OF MILITARY MEDALS AS SHE SPEAKS. 3.43 37. NGOMA TOURE WITH HER FAMILY. 3.46 38. CU: ENGLISH NARRATION BY EBBA KALONDO AND NATURAL WITH FRENCH AND WOLOF SPEECH. (SOUNDBITE) (Wolof) AMADOU DIOP'S WIDOW NGOMA TOURE SAYING: "My husband fought so that France could be free, he was on the frontlines. He was wounded in battle! I can't understand why his pension is inferior to those of the French soldiers." 4.00 39. MV: (SOUNDBITE) (French) BUSINESSMAN MAMADOU TIJANE SAYING: "It's time that France looked seriously into this problem. It's an issue of human dignity, of justice. It's as if French blood is more precious than African blood." 4.09 DAKAR, SENEGAL (FILE) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 40. GV: (BLACK & WHITE) OF DAKAR. (2 SHOTS) 4.17 41. LV: (BLACK & WHITE)SENEGALESE WORLD WAR ONE SOLDIERS CARRYING LUGGAGE. 4.18 42. WS: LONG LINE OF SENEGALESE SOLDIERS BOARDING SHIP. 4.20 43. MLV: (BLACK & WHITE) SENEGALESE SOLDIERS CARRYING LOADS ON HEAD AS THEY BOARD SHIP. 4.22 44. CU: (BLACK & WHITE) SOLDIERS' FEET AS THEY BOARD SHIP. 4.24 45. MV: (BLACK & WHITE) SENEGALESE SOLDIERS BEING GIVEN BLANKETS 4.28 46. VARIOUS: (BLACK & WHITE) OF SENEGALESE SOLDIERS' FACES. (3 SHOTS) 4.32 47. MV: (BLACK & WHITE) GROUP OF SOLDIERS LEANING ON SHIP'S RAILING. 4.34 48. WS: (BLACK & WHITE) SHIP SETTING SAIL. 4.37 DAKAR, SENEGAL (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 49. MV: (SOUNDBITE) (French) WAR VETERAN OUSMANE KASSE SAYING: "It was difficult to leave your own country and go on a journey from which one might not return." 4.42 50. LV: OUSMANE KASSE WALKING THROUGH WAR VETERANS GRAVEYARD OUSMANE WALKS TO MONUMENT OF TWO WORLD WAR SOLDIERS, ONE FRENCH, THE OTHER SENEGALESE, AND SALUTES THEM. (2 SHOTS) 4.57 51. MV: ON OUSMANE SALUTING. 5.00 52. CU: ON THE MONUMENT. 5.03 53. WS: OUSMANE SALUTING MONUMENT. 5.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th January 2003 12:00
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  • Location: DAKAR, SENEGAL AND PARIS, FRANCE RECENT AND FILE
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  • Country: Senegal France
  • Reuters ID: LVA4VF7X61DWTYSSE1H9ZBBBWNNM
  • Story Text: After fighting for the freedom of France,
    Senegal's surviving war veterans are still struggling for
    the rightful payment of their pensions from the French
    government.


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