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Ill patients at the American Presbyterian Congo mission's outdoor clinic and outside their houses in
The victims of sleeping sickness, Trypanosomiasis caused by the tsetse fly in Congo, Africa. Ill patients at the American Presbyterian Congo mission's outdoor clinic. A doctor examines the patients. People outside the houses.
Brutalities against prisoners, officials gathered in 1949 in Palace of Nations for Third Geneva Convention; discussion of Geneva Conventions.
Film from 1965 shows scenes that span from early 1940s through mid 1960s. Film opens showing armed conflict in Laos and South America. Soldiers firing rifles in jungle areas. Armed men running across a field and in a town in Cyprus. Heavy armor engaged in conflict and buildings burning in undisclosed location. Riots in Congo with a crowd of men beating another man. Armed Republic of South Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) moving through jungle in Vietnam War. A Viet Cong fighter shot as ARVN troops attack a hut. People fleeing in streets of Cuba as government soldiers engage armed revolutionaries under Castro. A civilian woman suffering a seizure as Red Cross workers attempt to carry her. Burned body of dead tank crew soldier atop a tank. Medical corps persons moving wounded on a stretcher. Various views of ARVN with captured Viet Cong in Vietnam. Narrator discussion about Geneva Conventions and Counterinsurgency. View of the Palace of Nations building in Geneva Switzerland. Scene shifts to inside, in 1949, where delegates of 59 nations are gathered to develop new rules expanding the original 1929 Geneva Conventions, in order to better protect prisoners of war, wounded prisoners, noncombatants and others caught up such internal conflicts. View from ground of German paratroopers during World War 2, jumping from Junkers Ju-52 trimotor transport planes. Closeup of German soldiers leaping from a plane and descending in parachutes. Japanese soldiers surrendering to Americans on a Pacific Island in World War 2. Several scenes of massacre victims lying on the ground, victims of Nazi German brutality in Europe during World War II. Survivors of a Nazi concentration camp near the time of its liberation in 1945. A U.S. Army medical corpsmen help one to a stretcher. Executed prisoners of war. Courtroom of the Nuremberg trials. Seen in the front row of Nazi leaders are: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, and Julius Streicher. Seated behind them are: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, and Konstantin von Neurath. Scene shifts to the postwar trial of Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, in the Philippines. Prisoners with hands bound, in an unidentified Asian conflict, being herded into an open truck. Views of the document constituting the 3rd Geneva Convention of 1949, addressing treatment of prisoners and of parts directed to "conflicts not of an international character." Views of a traumatized civilian driver wounded and a female passenger killed in in his car (appears to be in Cuba or Latin America). Armed gunmen have the man leave the car. A man lays the body of the woman beside the car. Scene shifts to a group of surrendered Vietcong fighters with their weapons stacked. Wounded combatants being carried on stretchers. American survivors of a Japanese prison camp receiving a good meal after being rescued - this is possibly in the Philippines in 1945. Many of the American prisoners are gaunt and emaciated and malnourished. Narrator recites list of activities prohibited by Geneva conventions, as images show these activities: A ditch filled with victims of massacre. Hostages being taken in an internal conflict in an African country. Prisoners being beaten by non-uniformed civilians in and humiliated in public. A recently liberated prison with a former prisoner in striped uniform beating a man as a group is marched away (likely a World War 2 concentration camp with a liberated prisoner beating a former Nazi guard). Death sentences being rendered without due process. A court in Cuba. A boy pointing at a lineup of prisoners. A prisoner shot.
Patients suffering from sleeping sickness sleep in Congo, Africa.
The victims of sleeping sickness, Trypanosomiasis caused by the tsetse fly in Congo, Africa. Patients suffering from sleeping sickness. Sick people seated on ground and sleep. A sick man sleeps. Facial expression of a sick man.
Weird activities of people suffering from sleeping sickness in Congo, Africa.
The victims of sleeping sickness or trypanosomiasis in Congo, Africa. It is caused by caused by the tsetse fly. People suffering from the sleeping sickness sit on the ground. Weird activities of a woman suffering from the disease. The leg of a woman is stuck in a log. A doctor takes the woman away. People sit and stand. They sit on the porch of a house.
Advanced cases of people suffering from sleeping sickness in Congo, Africa.
The victims of sleeping sickness or trypanosomiasis in Congo, Africa. It is caused by the tsetse fly. Advanced cases of sleeping sickness. People suffering from the disease sit and sleep on the ground. A person suffering from the disease drinks from a mug. The person hands over the mug to another person. People sit on the ground.
People are served hippopotamus meat and some of the cured cases of sleeping sickness in Congo, Africa.
The victims of sleeping sickness or trypanosomiasis in Congo, Africa. It is caused by the tsetse fly. A dead hippopotamus is carried on a cart. People in a line for food. People sit on the ground and wait. Pieces of meat. Mukandila and Kabalo, some of the cured cases of the disease, stand.
