SOMALIA: HUNDREDS CONTINUE TO BE MAIMED OR KILLED BY LANDMINES IN SOMALIA.

Record ID: 983503

  • Title: SOMALIA: HUNDREDS CONTINUE TO BE MAIMED OR KILLED BY LANDMINES IN SOMALIA.
  • Date: 31st July 1999
  • Summary: NEAR HARGEISA, SOMALILAND (JULY 28, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN/MV: HEAVILY MINED AREA TWO HOURS DRIVE AWAY FROM HARGEISA (3 SHOTS) 0.23 HARGEISA, SOMALILAND (JULY 28, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 2. GV: EXTERIOR OFFICE OF SOMALILAND PRESIDENT MOHAMED IBRAHIM EGAL 0.29 3. GV/CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOMALILAND PRESIDENT MOHAMED IBRAHIM EGAL SAYING: "The status of landmines is very very serious and unfortunately the attention of the world was focussed only on Cambodia. Now it's focussed only on Kosovo so we have never had the opportunity to publicise." (2 SHOTS) 1.05 4. GV/MCU: VARIOUS OF RECOVERED LANDMINES, SOME STILL LIVE (5 SHOTS0 1.24 5. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) EGAL SAYING: "There is not a day in each year, there is not a day that some of our animals, or one of our livestock, or one of our children, you know, doesn't get maimed and even killed by these mines. You see people, now the elder people they know how to protect themselves. They have little birds they follow. But children will play and the victims, 90 per cent of our victims are usually children or livestock." 1.41 GALKAYO, SOMALIA (JULY 28, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. GV: EXTERIOR REHABILITATION CENTRE FOR VICTIMS OF LANDMINES 1.46 7. CU: RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT CHARITIES'S FLAGS FLYING 1.51 8. GV: SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE NORWEGIAN RED CROSS, SVEN MOLLEKLEIV, OPENING THE REHABILITATION CENTRE BY CUTTING A RIBBON 1.58 9. MCU: LANDMINE VICTIM GIVES MOLLEKLEIV FLOWERS 2.05 10. GV: CARER FITS A FALSE LEG ON LANDMINE VICTIM 2.11 11. GV: LANDMINE VICTIM WITH PROSTHESIS WALKS TOWARDS CAMERA 2.17 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE NORWEGIAN RED CROSS, SVEN MOLLEKLEIV SAYING: "Now I see the importance of still fighting the mines, the anti-personnel land mines and support all the victims of the mines all over the country. We see small children lose their feet and we see the need for producing resources to give them a new life for the future". 2.45 13. GV TO MV: YOUNG GIRL, LANDMINE VICTIM AND AMPUTEE, WALKS WITH HER AUNT 2.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: NEAR HARGEISA, SOMALILAND AND GALKAYO, SOMALIA
  • Country: Somalia
  • Reuters ID: LVAD26JNJ5N5A8TEFZARRK9C53AC
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