GERMANY: GERMAN, SWISS AND BELGIUM ARRIVE IN GERMANY AFTER BEING EVACUATED FROM RWANDA.

Record ID: 646221

  • Title: GERMANY: GERMAN, SWISS AND BELGIUM ARRIVE IN GERMANY AFTER BEING EVACUATED FROM RWANDA.
  • Date: 10th April 1994
  • Summary: COLOGNE MILITARY AIRPORT, GERMANY (APRIL 10, 1994) 1. CU : OFFICIALS WAITING ON TARMAC 0.05 2. 2 GV'S/2CU'S : PLANE TAXIING/BLOCKS PLACED UNDER WHEEL 4 -SHOTS 0.36 3. GV'S : RELATIVES WAVE/EVACUEES WAVE BACK 2-SHOTS 0.42 4. SV: EVACUEES WALK INTO TERMINAL 0.59 5 CU : RELATIVES GREET ONE ANOTHER 1.09 6. CU : UNIDENTIFIED MAN TALKING ABOUT THE VICIOUS FIGHTING IN KIGALI AND THE GRAVE SITUATION (FRENCH) 1.47 7. CU: UNIDENTIFIED MAN SAYING HE DID NOT ACTUALLY SEE THE KILLING GOING ON BUT HEARD EXPLOSIONS AND CRIES. HE GOT OUT ON AN AMERICAN EMBASSY CONVOY (ENGLISH) 2.16 8. CU : EVACUEES LEAVING AIRPORT 2.24 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 7: UNIDENTIFIED MAN: " WELL WE ACTUALLY DIDN'T SEE MUCH OF THE KILLING GOING ON BUT WE SAW THE, WE SAW EXPLOSIONS AND WE HEARD CRIES BUT THAT'S ABOUT ALL AND THEN SATURDAY A CONVOY WAS ORGANISED BY THE AMERICAN EMBASSY AND WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST CONVOYS TO LEAVE KIGALI. AND WE ARRIVED LAST NIGHT IN BUJABURA AND LEFT TODAY FOR GERMANY. " Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 25th April 1994 13:00
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  • Location: COLOGNE MILITARY AIRPORT, GERMANY
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  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA792NSXZO59QVOVTLMTMSK39OM
  • Story Text: More than 200 German, Swiss and Belgium nationals arrived at Cologne Military Airport in Germany on Sunday (April 10) after fleeing fighting in Rwanda.

    The men, women and children came home to a tearful welcome from relieved relatives and friends.

    Rebels advanced on Rwanda's capital Kigali on Sunday as western forces scrambled to rescue foreigners caught up in a tribal conflict which has killed thousands.

    Residents of Kigali, many barricaded in their homes, said the city was lawless with no one group in control. Rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) said a 4,000-strong force was moving in on the city from two fronts.

    The evacuees spoke of bombs going off in the streets and efforts by foreigners to leave Kigali and other areas of the country.


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