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A night vigil is held at a ceremony in Kigali paying tribute to victims 30 years after the Rwandan genocide. The 100-day massacre at the hands of Hutu extremists started on April 7 in 1994 and claimed the lives of 800,000 people, largely Tutsis but also moderate Hutus. IMAGES
Rohingya refugees hold "Genocide Remembrance Day" rallies across the huge network of squalid camps in Bangladesh where they live in dire conditions, marking five years since fleeing from a brutal military offensive in Myanmar. In August 2017 around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed over the border from mostly Buddhist Myanmar from the onslaught, which is now the subject of a landmark genocide case at the UN's top court. Today there are nearly a million Rohingya, half of them under 18, in rickety huts in a network of camps in southeastern Bangladesh where the mud lanes regularly become rivers of sewage during monsoon rains. IMAGES
Tehran (Iran), Oct 1 (EFE) .- (Camera: Marina Villén) They fled Afghanistan for fear of the Taliban and crossed illegally into Iran. They all have in common a traumatic displacement, a current situation of helplessness and the difficult goal of rebuilding their lives in a country overwhelmed by the large number of refugees.FOOTAGE OF AFGHAN FAMILIES THAT RECENTLY ARRIVED IN IRAN FLEEING FROM THE TALIBANS.SOUNDBITES FROM AZIZE DOR MOHAMAD AND NUR MOHAMAD AHMADÍ (MOTHERS OF THE TWO LEADING FAMILIES OF THE HISTORY).TRANSLATIONS (BY ORDER OF APPEARANCE):1: Azize dor Mohamad"We came without a passport, illegally, smuggled. We were on the road for 21 days, we were hungry and thirsty, for two whole days we had neither water nor bread."2: Nur Mohamad Ahmadi:"We were afraid. It was said that the Taliban come and kidnap the girls to marry them and that they take the boys to fight in the war."
Van/Bitlis, Turkey, Jul 5 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Sedat Suna) Ahmed and his six friends have been walking for 28 days. They left Afghanistan looking for a future in Europe — today, they find themselves in the middle of an almost deserted area near the Iran-Turkey border. But they are already on Turkish soil. FOOTAGE OF THE CEMETERY IN THE CITY OF VAN, LAKE VAN, THE ROAD (MOST MOST OF IT IN TATVAN), DIYARBAKIR.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS:1- My name is Ahmed. I am from Afghanistan.I am a Turkmen from Afghanistan. A month ago, we came from Afghanistan to Iran and from there to Turkey. Now I am in Tatvan. I want to go to Ankara. I'll work there. I will send money to my hometown. Mum and Dad need money. There is no work there, we have to come here.2- We paid 1,000 dollars to come here from Afghanistan. If we send money, they send us to Ankara and Istanbul.Refugee:3- We come from Afghanistan. We cross borders. We go through illegal roads up mountains. Now we have come here, there is war in our country. They are fighting each other. That's why we can't find a job. We have to come here. We come here to save our family and our children. We work for 1-2 years and send them money. We also saved their lives. We met soldiers on the way. Some Turkish soldiers helped us. God bless you. They fed us, they gave us tea. We came here on foot from Afghanistan for 28 days. We had many difficulties.4.- Hello, I am Nasrollah Movahedpour from the city of Mashhad.5.- I wish something would happen and the regime in Iran was changed, since they are so corrupt and send our money to Russia, China, everywhere except the Iranians, and I hope that when the regime changes I will be the first to return there, to my country, like my roots, my parents are there.
French President Emmanuel Macron is welcomed to Kigali by his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame for a highly symbolic visit, aimed at finalising the reconciliation between Paris and Kigali after more than 25 years of diplomatic tensions linked to the 1994 genocide. IMAGES
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his wife Jeannette light the flame of hope at Kigali Genocide Memorial, marking 27th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. IMAGES
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