AZIMUTHS NO 19: CAMBODIA [Main Title]
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- Title: AZIMUTHS NO 19: CAMBODIA [Main Title]
- Film Number: UNT 898
- Other titles: UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: AZIMUTHS programme about the work of the United Nations in two different parts of the world on very different missions. The first part is about the UN's work in Cambodia and the second part is about UNDP-supported projects in the Galapagos Islands.
- Description: Titles: AZIMUTHS. CAMBODIA. THE WAY HOME. Buses on a Dusty road. A train on the move. Title: CAMBODIA THE WAY HOME. Thousands of people are returning home after spending years in refugee camps in Thailand; many of these children were born in exile. Interview with Bernard Boyer, UNHCR local representative, who explains that they can transport up to 40,000 people a month but even that is not keeping up with demand. He says people have waited a long time for this chance to go home and it is frustrating for them to have to wait even longer. He says that UNHCR cannot expand its operation any further. This is one of the largest repatriation missions in the UN’s history. As part of the Paris Peace Agreement of Oct 1991, UNHCR was made responsible for the repatriation of refugees. Shots of refugees at transit camp. The UN is providing land, money and food aid to those returning. Bernard Boyer says that UNHCR are flexible in re-integrating people and people are grateful for UNHCR’s assistance. However he is concerned once about what will happen when the initial 400 day mission ends. He stresses the importance of long term planning, highlighting UNDP as one of key organisation looking after medium and long term goals in education, reconstruction, irrigation, healthcare and community development. Interview with a local aid worker who says that it is he is giving everything he can to help this country. He is the sole survivor in his family of the Khmer Rouge regime and only survived because he was studying abroad. He is now an agricultural engineer and doctor of economics and has worked for UN for more than fifteen years. He is currently working for the UNDP in Cambodia. Shots of this aid worker at work. As part of an infrastructure programme, he is meeting local workmen carpenters. Shots of workers building a road. They are paid by UN, which promotes local initiatives like this. School children stand outside a school house. Education in Cambodia need to be regenerated. Children write on chalkboards. Interior of a hospital ward. It is estimated that there are no more than 500 doctors in the whole country. People lying on wooden hospital beds. Christopher Goossens, a UN Volunteer, works for the Wood Food Programme. He talks to refugees and displaced persons. Shots of rations being distributed. Rations help in this difficult period before the agricultural economy is restored. Interview with Christopher Goossens, VNU - PNUD - WFP, who says that as soon as there is peace it will be good to live here but at the moment people are afraid of mines. Shot of a mine explosion and amputees in hospital. Cambodia has the highest proportion of amputees in its population of anywhere in the world. Interview with Lt. Are Hemmingsen, Norwegian army, who says that he has been teaching people to find mines so that he can remove them. He says it is still very dangerous for local farmers. Around this village alone there are 20,000 mines buried and it will take years for this area to be completely demined. Shots of people with cattle, a sign warning of mines, men clearing mines. UNDP are funding these demining efforts. Son Son Hack, a refugee in a Thai camp for thirteen years, has returned to set up a chicken farm. He walks on crutches, one leg amputated above the knee. Interview with Son Song Hak, director, Cambodian Foundation for the Disabled. He explains that he was injured in 1980 by a mine on the border. All his employees are handicapped by land mines and he hopes the fame will raise funds to create jobs for disabled. This project is supported by UNDP. Shots of the chicken farm. The ceasefire remains fragile though it is enforced by 20,000 UN troops. Shots of Dutch UN troops. There have been violent deaths in this area recently and although Dutch troops should be allowed into all zones, they are waiting on the border until the process set up by peace accord can grant them access to Khymer Rouge controlled areas. Meanwhile they are building a school on the border. Shots of construction work. Shots of medical centre run by the Dutch troops. Interview with Dr. Martin R. Ketting of the Dutch Marines, who says that there are many injuries in this area and this country badly needs peace. Interview with Col. Alting Von Geusau, Dutch Marines, who says that a long time is needed to heal wounds of this country, but he is happy to have been able to work here to help the Cambodian people. Shot from helicopter window as it takes off. The helicopter is waved off by a Dutch soldier. (15 mins) 02. Titles: AZIMUTHS Children walk in a nature reserve and draw pictures of a tortoise. Titles: GALAPAGOS. GEORGE THE TORTOISE AND FRIENDS. George the tortoise is the last example of his species. Jorge Ponce, volunteer environmental education, says that his fate has become a lesson, “we must protect nature and not let species become extinct”. Children talk about actions they can take to protect species. Shots of Galapagos Islands. Photographers on a small boat. Franklin Salgado, head warden Galapagos wildlife sanctuary, explains the visiting restrictions and says that visitors can film and photograph species but cannot touch them. Tourism is a good source of income so their numbers have not been entirely prevented. Interview with people who builds boats to transport tourists. They have moved to the islands from mainland Equador and says that life is easier here then on the mainland Building work is a threat to the islands’ wildlife. Aid from UNDP is used to plan further urban development to limit coastal pollution that is a consequence of an expanding population. Shots of a building site. Luis Zapata, a businessman, explains that the sand on the building site comes from the beach but he also brings sand from the mainland because taking sand from the beaches damages them. Shots of men cutting down a plant originally introduced by man to produce quinine. This plant, and other species introduced by man, now threaten the lives of native species. Luis G. Bolanos, agronomist at the Galpagos wildlife sanctuary, says that they are trying to control the spread of the plant and they started to try and get rid of it in 1971 but have not been successful yet. Introduction of domestic animals over centuries have also endangered native species. Franklin Saldago says that they are the number one threat to native species. For example dogs eat tortoise eggs. Exterior shot of the Charles Darwin Foundation building. The Foundation, helped by UNDP, works to preserve the number on species on the islands. Shots of young tortoises born in captivity before being released into the wild when they are more mature. Jorge Ponce explains that there is a radio programme run by and produced for children. Clips of the children broadcasting their radio programme. Scrolling titles: AZIMUTHS is made by the information department of the United Nations Development Programme - UNDP - with the aid of UNHCR, WFP and UNESCO, conceived by JEAN-FRANCOIS ARROU-VIGNOD, production team JOSY DUBIE, DENIS HENON, ERIC VANDER BORGHT, production assistant BETTY ROBLIN, assistant producer GILLES SERENI, research CHRISTIANE VANSTRACEELE, promotion MARYELLEN LOWE, administration BERNICE SHAW, technical facilities UN-TV GENEVA, sound mixing ALEK GOOSE VIDEAUDIO, Brussels, original music ZAYED HANNA, english version JAN POWELL, narration WILLIAM JACKSON, post production JEAN-MARC GLINZ, editor JOSY DUBIE, head of information department JEAN FABRE AZIMUTHS - UNDP Palais des Nations 1211 Geneva 10 SWITZERLAND (c) undp 1992 Final title: AZIMUTHS
- Alternative Title: UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
- Colour: [English (Tape Code A)?]
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- Object_Number: UNT 898
- Sound: Sound
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- Featured Period: 1990-2000
- Production Date: 1992
- Production Country: UN
- Production Details: UN (Production sponsor) UNDP (Production company)
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- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: [English (Tape Code A)?]
- Technical Details: Format: VHS Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage:; Running time 28 mins, 30 secs
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