(1 May 1995) T/I 10:40:10
STORY: VISIT
LOCATION: RWANDA
DATE: 27 APRIL 1995
DURATION: 1.16
President orders inquiry...and immediate exhumations
Rwandan president Pasteur Bizimungu on Thursday (27/4) personally supervised the exhumation of 338 bodies at Kibeho camp where thousands were slaughtered last weekend. Without waiting for the international inquiry he had announced an hour earlier, Bizimungu watched as the bodies were dug up by UN and Rwandan troops from some 30 graves. A total of 338 bodies were unearthed before Bizimungu challenged others to reveal the sites of further graves. The exhumations were a grisly episode during a visit to Kibeho in southwestern Rwanda by diplomats and government ministers appealing for the last 500 Hutus holed up in the compound to surrender. But a Hutu spokesman, using a loudspeaker,
refused, saying they feared for their safety. Around 250,000 Hutus were last week driven out of Kibeho and other camps in southwest Rwanda and told to return to their home towns and villages. The panic that set in among those convinced that they were being sent to their deaths at the hands of vengeful Tutsis led directly to the stampede and massacre at Kibeho.
SHOWS:
(KIBEHO, 27/4) WS presidential delegation arriving at camp. Delegation past camera position. President Pasteur Bizimungu meets UN officials. CU Bizimungu. Refugees squatting in camp. Soldiers walking past corpses under blankets. UN officer SOT: "A soldier (was) counting them. Forty-one went in there. Most of them having been hit either by bullet or fragments of grenades. There were a few machete wounds, but not many. There's 41 in that grave." PAN to mass grave covered in disinfectant powder. Refugee child looks up. PAN across sea of refugees. Infant cries on mother's back, zoom to older child with head gash, having his head shaved.
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