https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_Tchetchenie.pdf - 1 Jan 2004

A survivor of Gitarama in Ruhango, Rwanda, July 1994

MSF Speaking Out

Genocide of Rwandan Tutsi 1994 (PDF, 3.8 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/2019-04/MSF%20Speaking%20Out%20Rwandan%20Tutsi%20Genocide%201994_0.pdf - 1 Jan 2004

Gitarama. One of more than 7.000 mostly Hutu inmates at the overcrowded Gitarama prison stares out from behind the bars. Some 120 inmates were transferred by the UN in an effort to try to relieve overcrowding.

MSF Speaking Out

The violence of the new rwandan regime 1994-1995 (PDF, 3.8 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_The_Violence_of_the_new_Rwandan_regime_1994-1995.pdf - 1 Jan 2004

Pont du Ruzizi, Bukavu. Arrivee des refugies rwandais. Les refugies attendent du cote rwandais de pouvoir traverser le point et rejoindre le Zaire ou des camions les emmeneront aux camps situes aux alentours de Bukavu.

MSF Speaking Out

Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania 1994-1995 (PDF, 5.5 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_Rwandan_Refugee_Camps_Zaire_Tanzania.pdf - 1 Jan 2004

MSF Speaking Out

Rwandan Refugee Camps in Zaire and Tanzania 1994-1995

The 'Rwandan Refugee Camps in Zaire -Tanzania 1994-1995' case study describes the constraints, questions and dilemmas met by MSF when confronted with ‘refugee leaders” tight control over refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania. Some of those camps were transformed into rear basis from which they planned to re-conquer Rwanda and complete the genocide of Tutsi via a massive diversion of aid, violence, propaganda and threats against refugees wishing to repatriate.
Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2004

At the village of Biaro. The Zairian Red Cross are present (brought here by the rebels of Kabila, who want to make sure the bodies are burried as fast as possible, fearing typhus epidemic) and make a count of all the orphans: above 1000 children. They are lined up along the railway tracks.Tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees, (they all come from the refugee camps of Goma and Bukavu), fleeing the Zairian rebels of Laurent- Desire Kabila, for the last 5 months, hiding in the bush, exhausted, famished, and all waiting to return home, to Rwanda, are today in the midst of a new nightmare. They had taken residence in camps in 1994, when they fled their country in fear of retribution for the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi by Hutu extremists. The presence of Hutu nettled Zairian Tutsi, who joined forces with Kabila, a longtime Mobutu foe, and launched the insurgency. The fighting forced most of the Rwandan refugees to go home in Autumn 96, but about 350.000 of them have been marooned in tough eastern Zaire, fighting terrain. They are dying at an alarming rate. They need food, water ans safe passage home. But no one has made the refugees a priority. The Zairian rebels of Kabila who seized Kisangani, Zaire'sthird city, had ordered the Rwandan Hutu Refugees, who were in this region's camps, to move back south.

MSF Speaking Out

The Hunting and Killing of Rwandan Refugees in Zaire-Congo: 1996-1997

The ‘Hunting and killings of the Rwandan refugee in Zaire/Congo’ case study describes the constraints and dilemmas faced by Médecins Sans Frontières’ teams in 1996 and 1997 when trying to bring assistance to the Rwandan refugees in Eastern Zaire, after their camps had been attacked by rebel forces supported by the Rwandan army. Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2004

Sierra Leone

Effects of the native herbs that parents gave to their children

Marlene Hay is a nurse specialising in paediatrics from Kilsyth in Scotland. In January she returned from Sierra Leone in West Africa, where she worked for six months in a rural hospital with no running water and a generator that ran for only two hours a day. She reports back on her challenging work and the battle with the cockroaches in the compound toilet! Project Update - 1 Jan 2004

Iran

Specialised equipment and teams sent to treat post-quake 'crush' victims

MSF, together with the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), is providing medical care for "crush syndrome" earthquake victims. A team of five people is already on the ground and a flight carrying six additional dialysis machines left Ostende Tuesday evening. Project Update - 30 Dec 2003

Somalia

Somali MSF worker killed

MSF Somali national worker, Bashir Yusuf Ali, was tragically killed. Project Update - 29 Dec 2003

South Sudan

Tuberculosis treatment in complex emergencies

Treating tuberculosis in complex emergencies is an under-recognised priority. Although MSF's programme is small, it offers treatment to people who have previously been denied access to health care. Clearly, new ideas and strategies, based on core principles of tuberculosis treatment, need to be adapted to ensure that people living in unique and difficult settings, such as Sudan, have access to this life-saving care. Project Update - 29 Dec 2003

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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War crimes and politics of terror in Chechnya 1994-2004 (PDF, 20 MB)

Genocide of Rwandan Tutsi 1994 (PDF, 3.8 MB)

The violence of the new rwandan regime 1994-1995 (PDF, 3.8 MB)

Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania 1994-1995 (PDF, 5.5 MB)

Rwandan Refugee Camps in Zaire and Tanzania 1994-1995

The Hunting and Killing of Rwandan Refugees in Zaire-Congo: 1996-1997

Effects of the native herbs that parents gave to their children

Specialised equipment and teams sent to treat post-quake 'crush' victims

Somali MSF worker killed

Tuberculosis treatment in complex emergencies

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

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