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	HU OSA 392-2-5
Fonds 392:	Video recordings of WITNESS
Subfonds 2:	WITNESS partners' raw footage
Series 5:	Solidarité pour la Promotion Sociale et la Paix (SOPROP)

Date(s) 1999

Extent and medium 1 DVD-ROM, 0.01 linear meters

Scope and content

In a hospital, members of Solidarite Pour la Promotion Sociale et la Paix (SOPROP) interviewed people recovering from torture, shootings and beatings by the Rwandan military and the Tutsi rebels. The patients talk about the attacks on their lives, and the situation in the DRC. Injuries and wounds are of the victims are shown. Members of SOPROP describe their work, with emphasis upon the legal and financial aid they provide to victims.

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access Open to researchers

Conditions governing reproduction Copyright held by producers

Language/scripts of material French

Physical characteristics and technical requirements DVD ROMs

Finding aids

• 1 container

Existence and location of originals

• www.witness.org

Related units of description

• HU OSA 350 Records of the International Monitor Institute, 1980-2002
• HU OSA 350-3 Africa, 1990-2000
• HU OSA 350-3-1 Rwanda, 1990-1996

Note

Keywords: Democratic Republic of Congo
Former Zaire
Armed Conflict
Beatings and Assaults
Ethnic Conflict
Healthcare
Torture
Interview

Date(s) of descriptions

System of arrangement and preliminary processing by Zsuzsa Zádori, 2005; processed and described by Anna Kövecsi, April 2008
Online version updated 6 January 2012