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Bocar Sy
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misinformation emerging from lack of information

Transcript

0:00

You know that, you know that at the beginning we were facing as you say some, some problems. Some misinformation coming from various part of, we don't know, part was coming from Rwanda, part was coming from journalists, "western journalists," quote, unquote, if I can say that.

0:20

Because they didn’t get the proper information. As I told you it was not so easy to reach this place. It was not so easy to call or to fax, whatever. Because at that time we didn’t have, there was no website, there was no internet you know, which facilitate the things now and that was no dishes for, to facilitate you know our communications links.

0:45

And people were not receiving the proper information and I think that they start building information. Instead of trying to gather the information from, from the proper sources people were just catching you know, a small part of – and from that building the, the information, that is how we had this information.