SUDAN: SUDAN AIFORCE PLANE BOMB THE REBEL-HELD SOUTHERN TOWN OF YEI KILLING FOURTEEN PEOPLE AND INJURING FIFTY ONE

Record ID: 976542

  • Title: SUDAN: SUDAN AIFORCE PLANE BOMB THE REBEL-HELD SOUTHERN TOWN OF YEI KILLING FOURTEEN PEOPLE AND INJURING FIFTY ONE
  • Date: 20th November 2000
  • Summary: YEI, SOUTHERN SUDAN (NOVEMBER 20, 2000)(OSIL) 1. WAILING PEOPLE/ MEN CARRYING A BODY ON A SV MAKESHIFT STRETCHER; BODY BEING CARRIED AWAY ON STRETCHER (2 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SV FEMALE BODY LYING ON THE GROUND; BODY ON THE GROUND AND PEOPLE AROUND IT; MUTILATED BODIES LYING ON THE GROUND (4 SHOTS) 0.35 3. MCU WOMAN CRYING 0.42 4. SV BODIES ON GROUND; BODY BEING CARRIED AWAY (4 SHOTS) 1.04 5. SV SURVIVOR BEING LED TO A WAITING VEHICLE (2 SHOTS) 1.35 6. SV DAN EIFFE NORWEGIAN PEOPLES AID BEING INTERVIEWED IN HIS OFFICE 1.40 7. MCU (ENGLISH): DAN EIFFE, LIAISON OFFICER NORWEGIAN PEOPLES AID, SAYING: "The government policy has been to deny humanitarian assistance and use bombings to depopulate the south and push people out. So, as life is returning to these areas, this is where the bombings are. It's basically to drive the people back out of the country so that they can take over." 1.55 8. CU/SV WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL; BODIES ON THE FLOOR (2 SHOTS) 2.05 9. MCU (English) EIFFE SAYING: "The bombing seriously affects humanitarian issues throughout and in particular we had to evacuate the field on numerous occasions - our hospitals here have been bombed many times, our feeding centres have been bombed - United Nations planes bombed, pilots have been afraid to fly in there in July. Aid stopped in Sudan and we are facing a major humanitarian crisis and in particular in Bar el Gazal region." 2.29 VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SUDAN (FILE) (REUTERS) 10. SV/CU MOSLEM SOLDIERS IN SUDAN; SOLDIERS HOLDING RIFLES; SOLDIERS AND RIFLES (4 SHOTS) 2.46 11. SV/SLV SPLA FIGHTERS LOADING A ROCKET LAUNCHER; SPLA FIGHTERS AROUND A TRUCK (2 SHOTS) 2.57 12. SV/SLV SOLDIERS CHANTING WAR SONGS, MARCHING (2 SHOTS) 3.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: YEI, SOUTHERN SUDAN
  • Country: Sudan
  • Reuters ID: LVADZJXT76AYALTYAS914Y65F729
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