Rwanda at the Paralympics

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, the Rwandan sitting volleyball team became the first Paralympians from their country. The sport began in Rwanda after thousands of people were mutilated during the genocide of 1994, and there were emotional scenes in London when the Rwandan side eventually won a match. Bob Nicholson talks to Rwanda’s captain, Emile Vuningabo, and the side’s Dutch coach, Peter Karreman. The programme is a Whistledown Production.

PHOTO: The Rwandan team blocking a shot at the 2012 Paralympics (Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
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0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. You are listening to the BBC World Service and now witness history.
0:39.0	November 2020 marks 25 years since the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act in the UK.
0:46.0	This week we're looking at milestones in the lives of disabled people around the world.
0:51.6	Today we're going back to the London Paralympic Games of 2012. The first
0:56.4	time a group of disabled athletes from Rwanda got to represent their country.
1:00.8	Robert Nicholson reports.
1:03.0	It's 2011 and in a crowded arena in Kegali, Rwanda, the national sitting volleyball team
1:10.6	are on the verge of making history as the first Randon team in any sport to
1:14.6	qualify for the Paralympics.
1:16.6	Their star player is Emil Kadevooningabo.
1:19.4	It was amazing for me to qualify it to London.
1:24.0	Their team had a Dutchborn coach, Peter Karaman.
1:27.0	They went crazy.
1:29.0	They were yelling, jumping if they had two legs, but they had two legs.
1:33.2	But some had two legs.
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