| Place | Africa: Rwanda |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | P04111.018 |
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Transparency |
| Maker |
Gittoes, George Noel |
| Place made | Rwanda: Kibeho |
| Date made | 1995 |
| Conflict |
Rwanda (UNAMIR), 1993 - 1996 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
A group of mostly Australian soldiers take cover behind a sandbagged wall and look on helplessly ...
Description
A group of mostly Australian soldiers take cover behind a sandbagged wall and look on helplessly as soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) massacre Rwandan civilians in the Kibeho refugee camp. The refugee camp at Kibeho was administered by the UN and at one time held an estimated 120,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) fleeing the genocide of the civil war between Rwanda's two tribal groups, the Tutsi and Hutu. Corporal P Jordan, a member of the second Australian Service Contingent (ASC2) serving in the second United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR II), later wrote: "Back in the compound we watched everything that occurred from behind sandbagged walls. RPG rounds were seen to land among the stampeding crowd and ten people would fall. A woman stood up 50 metres from our location with her hands in the air. An RPA soldier walked down to her and walked her up the hill with his arm on her shoulder. He then turned around and looked at us, then pushed the women to the ground and shot her." (Reproductions only available for personal use, requests for commercial use or publication must be made to Gittoes & Dalton Productions Pty Ltd)