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European refugees arrive in Belgium after violence in Congo soon after attaining independence.
Violence breaks out in Congo 11 days after the independence. Soldiers patrol the streets in Congo after incidents of Congolese troops mutiny and looting that killed some Europeans. In Belgium an aircraft carrying Europeans arrives at airport. European women and children get off the Sabena passenger aircraft. Officials look after the refugees.
Belgian refugees cross over into Rhodesia to escape the adverse effects of crisis in Congo.
Congo crisis forces Belgian nationals to flee. Belgian national cross over into Northern Rhodesia. Policemen march and take away the guns and other weapons carried by refugees. They look at weapons confiscated from the refugees. Damaged shops in Congo after they were burnt by Congolese Army. Troops patrol the streets. A man stands next to a burnt car. Congolese women cross the road.
Congolese soldiers brutally arrest civilians in village during the Congo Crisis
Republic of Congo soldiers arrest civilians in a village during the Congo Crisis. Congolese soldiers chase after dissenters in a village. Soldiers brutally striking a man. An angry woman shouting and pointing to a someone outside her house. A soldier attacks another man with rifle butt during arrest. Troops hitting civilians with rifle butts. A man carries an injured boy as soldiers escort them to a military truck. Prisoners climb up a military truck. Soldiers make prisoners sit on the ground.
Tribal war zone in Congo; Soldiers arrest men from makeshift hospital in Congo
A tribal war zone in Congo. Crowds of Africans in traditional costumes gather on the foothills of a mountain in Central Africa. Congolese troops with weapons practice charging forward on a road. African soldiers let women carrying jars and sacks on their heads pass by roadblock. Soldiers inspect motorists at a checkpoint. Patients sit in front of beds inside a hospital in Congo. An injured prisoner with head bandage. Another patient sits down while others are seen lying in beds. A white officer, probably Belgium, talks to a handcuffed patient. A lock is seen on patient’s wrist. A handcuffed African prisoner stands behind the general. Torn clothing or fabric scattered on the floor. Congolese soldiers take away handcuffed wounded prisoners from the makeshift hospital.
Protesters harass a man, Congolese Army troops arrest rioters in front of Léopoldville Airport during the Congo Crisis.
Demonstrators gather in front of Léopoldville Airport (present day Kinshasa, Congo) before the arrival of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in the Pan-African Conference. Congo Crisis protesters raising their arms, some pointing to the sky or waving. Congolese Army troops in standby. A young protester in crowd throwing rocks. Congolese soldiers drive a Jeep, moving past angry protesters. A riot between protesters and Congolese soldiers. Soldiers attempt to break the riot while a group of protesters surround a soldier. Belgium officers aid and injured man, bringing him through a line of Belgium soldiers. Rioters in a brawl. Congolese mob harassing and kicking a man. Congolese soldiers chase rioters.
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.
