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	HU OSA 350-3-2
Fonds 350:	Records of the International Monitor Institute
Subfonds 3:	Africa
Series 2:	Sierra Leone

Date(s) 1995-2000

Extent and medium 13 Beta SP, 0.39 linear meters

Scope and content

The Sierra Leone collection contains 13 raw and edited videos documenting the fierce civil war that devastated the country leaving more than 50,000 people dead and much of the infrastructure destroyed.

It includes recordings of site visits and interviews, particularly notable being the interviews with victims of the amputation squads and child soldiers detailing the killings and the damage they inflicted upon their communities. Several tapes containing raw footage are witness to executions and the movements of the military and rebel troops.

The collection also features television news, reports and documentaries. The news and reports come from SLBS (Sierra Leone Broadcasting Services), APTV (Associated Press Television News) and ITN (Independent Television Network). Among the documentaries, especially remarkable is Sorious Samura’s striking film “Cry Freetown” which uncovered the horrors of the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone and changed the way the international community responded to the conflict.

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access Open to the public.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyrights are held by creators/producers (no rights are held by OSA at CEU).

Language/scripts of material English, French, German, Krio

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

13 Beta SP NTSC tapes.

Finding aids

• 13 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 392 Video recordings of WITNESS, 1996-2004

Note

Keywords:
• Bo, Freetown, Kenema, Kono

• AFRC (Armed Forces Revolutionary Council), Ahmad Kabbah, ECOMOG, Foday Sankoh, Johnny Paul Koroma, Kamajors, RUF (Revolutionary United Front), Valentine Strasser

• abduction, amputation, civil war, child soldiers, diamond, health, human rights, mutilation, peacekeeping, rebels, refugees, refugee camps, trainings, victims

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Alexandra Lăzău-Ratz in March 2011 – April 2011. Revised by Anna Kövecsi and Csaba Szilágyi in April 2011.
Online version updated 19 April 2012