Best TV interpretation or documentary on foreign affairs
AWARD YEAR: 1997
AWARD NAME: The Edward R. Murrow Award 1997
RECIPIENT: Fergal Keane, Mike Robinson, Michael Sullivan, David Fanning
AFFILIATION: Frontline/ WGBH Boston and BBC Panorama
HONORED WORK: “Valentina’s Nightmare”
After the massacre of her village in a church courtyard, a 13-year-old Tutsi girl named Valentina Iribagzia lay gravely wounded, hidden for days among the corpses of her family and neighbors. When he first saw Valentina, BBC reporter Fergal Keane was told that she would probably die, but her face would continue to haunt him. In this powerful portrait of genocide, Keane returns to Rwanda to look back on the 1994 massacre of 800,000 Tutsi by the Hutu majority and to explore the country’s struggle for justice through the story of one girl who miraculously survived.
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