(30 Oct 1996) T/I: 10:22:05
Zairean and Rwandan troops exchanged heavy arms fire across their border on Tuesday (29/10), with shells raining on a residential area of the Rwandan town of Cyangugu. WTN's crew in Cyangugu was pinned down in the crossfire, only managing to withdraw through Rwandan army lines at first light on Wednesday, during a lull in the fighting. The exchange of fire came amid an uprising in Eastern Zaire by a group of ethnic Tutsis, the Banyamulenge, who've lived there for generations, and the
resultant exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan and Burundian refugees and displaced Zaireans who are trying to escape the fighting.
SHOWS:
RWANDA/ZAIRE BORDER, 29/10
ON BORDER, (BUKAVU,ZAIRE VISIBLE)
WS countryside;
Soldier running through woods down hillside,
land mines;
Tutsi woman and children walk down road,
they stop to speak with journalists;
SOT woman (through interpreter): "She fled because she was afraid to be
killed... she came without her husband, who is Zairean."
Woman walks off down road;
NR,CYANGUGU, RWANDA
WTN Journalist crawling through grass as sound of gunfire is heard, camera
POV - ducking around and running to cover behind house;
WS WTN journalist running across road and into bushes;
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