Amnesty International UK Media Awardsat the AIUK Website
The 1993 awards were in 6 categories: National Print, Periodicals, Radio, Regional Print, Television Documentary and Television News.
A Special Award for Best Historical Documentary was made to the Channel 4 programme "Drowning by Bullets", which dealt the Paris massacre of 1961 and the events of 17 October 1961.
The overall winning entry was from BBC Radio 4, with their then South Africa correspondent Fergal Keane.[1]
On the evening of 17 October 1961, about 30,000 Algerians, ostensibly French citizens, descended upon the boulevards of central Paris to protest an 8:30 curfew. The curfew was in response to repeated terrorist attacks by Algerian nationalists in Paris and other French cities. They were met by a police force determined to break up the demonstration. Demonstrators were beaten, shot, even drowned in the Seine. This video exposes the massacre, and the cover-up.
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DISPATCHES provides detailed evidence of how young black men continue to die at the hands of the South African police - and of the bizarre methods by which this is concealed.