Opération Banyarwanda ( 1964, French )

Filmed during the month of May, 1964, in the Congolese province of Kivu and in Burundi, the film shows the joint action taken by the League of Red Cross Societies and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to assist some 80,000 refugees from Rwanda, and provides an image of the diversity of tasks undertaken and the results obtained during this resettlement operation undertaken between 1962 and 1964: clothing, feeding, and providing medical treatment to the refugees; distributing of wooded land requiring forest clearance; organising agriculture; building houses; re-establishing trades.

See also the film "Med Røde Kors i sentral Afrika" in the Norwegian Red Cross films playlist.

00:28 Opening Title
02:07 Relief items are delivered to refugees
07:32 Farming and agriculture
10:34 Building schools for children
12:12 Pre-birth examination for young mothers

Year: 1964

Producer: IFRC, Henry Brandt

Director and writer: Henry Brandt

Music: Julien-François Zbinden

Narrator: Jacques Dacqmine

Copyright: IFRC

Country: Congo, Burundi

Duration: 17:16 minutes

Language: French

Original format: 16mm acetate film

File name: c00066 H264 reduced.mp4

Memoriav, l'Association pour la sauvegarde de la mémoire audiovisuelle suisse, provided financial support for the preservation and digitization of this film.

For queries about copyright and the re-use of this film, please contact Archives.Contact[at]ifrc.org .