(18 Sep 2002)
**TOKO MATERIAL **
Kindu, Democratic Republic of Congo
1. Various Rwandan soldiers marching through street, and Congolese on street cheering their departure
2. Soldiers marching and women cheering
3. Wide shot soldiers marching and United Nations vehicle with peacekeepers observing
4. Various Rwandan soldiers singing and dancing
5. Long shot Rwandan soldiers boarding aircraft with UN peacekeepers observing
6. Pan of soldiers on runway
7. High shot of soldiers boarding aircraft
Kigali, Rwanda
++NIGHT SHOTS++
8. Wide shot aircraft taxing on runway with soldiers on board
9. Ground crew directing aircraft
10. Wide shot interior plane with Rwandan troops aboard
11. Soldiers disembarking from aircraft
12. Wide shot of aircraft and troops
13. Long shot troops marching single file off aircraft
14. Low shot soldiers marching
15. Junior officer directing troops
16. Soldiers filing past and singing
17. Close up Rwandan soldier
18. High shot of around 300 hundred soldiers dancing and singing on the runway
19. Soldiers dancing and singing
20. Pan left to right with soldiers singing on left to Rwandan Prime Minister, Bernard Makuza, clapping
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernard Makuza, Rwandan Prime Minister: (AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING)
"What I can say, Rwanda has the good will to terminate this problem in the Congo. But this is a process, a process which must be supported also by the Congo which must be supported by the international community."
22. Tracking shot of soldiers singing and dancing on runway with their weapons
STORYLINE:
The first Rwandan troops to leave the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived back in Kigali on Tuesday as part of an agreement signed with the Congolese government to end the four-year civil war in Africa's third-largest nation.
With U.N. observers filling out verification forms, the first of an estimated 1-thousand 600 troops loaded equipment and supplies on to two Antonov-12s to fly to Kigali from Kindu - 330 kilometers (205 miles) west of the Rwandan border.
All the troops are expected to be withdrawn by Wednesday (September 18) from Kindu, which serves as a base for the Rwandan army troops.
Arriving at Kigali International airport, the troops were met by Rwandan Prime Minister, Bernard Makuza, and other government officials.
Speaking beside soldiers singing and dancing on the tarmac, Makuza called on the international community to help keep the peace.
The Rwandan troop pullout is part of a South African-mediated Congo-Rwanda accord signed on July 30.
The Democratic Republic of Congo agreed to locate, demobilise, disarm and repatriate former Rwandan Hutu militiamen, the Interahamwe, responsible for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
At least half a million people, most of them minority Tutsis, died in a government-orchestrated 100-day slaughter.
Rwanda has declined to say how many troops it has in DR Congo or how large its army is. But unofficial estimates put the number at between 20-thousand and 30-thousand.
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