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Afghan
Khoja Bahauddin, October 2001
Sunset in the dusty town of Khoja Bahauddin. Northern Alliance commander Achmed Massoud was killed 6 weeks earlier in Khoja Bahauddin by suicide bombers.

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Afghan
Kabul, July 2004

Woman in burkha begging on street. Thousands of war widows are stranded in Afghanistan with no other resources than to beg.

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Bosnia
Sarajevo, July 1993

Children in the street play with an old bazooka and handmade toy-guns while faking the sound of incoming shells.

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Bosnia
Bosnia, July 1993

Dead soldiers in the morgue of the central hospital.

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Gaza
Beith Hanoun, November 2006

Hostilities have flared up with the kidnapping of an Israëli soldier in June 2006. The town of Beith Hanoun was particularly hit very hard. People in Beith Hanoun looking at list of households who can apply for assistance from the Palestinian Authority.

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Iraq
North West Iraq, border Syria, November 2003

Soldiers carrying out a raid in a deserted house where hostile militants are suspected to be hiding. The soldiers find only a few women. One of them breaks out in tears and is comforted by her daughter while a US soldier is trying to calm them down.

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Lebanon
Beirut, August 2006

People watching a search operation for people that might be alive but trapped under the rubble of bombed apartment buildings.

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Lebanon
Qana, August 2006

Women mourning their children that were killed when Israel bombed a house were civilians were seeking shelter. The victims were hastily burried in massgraves in the town of Tyre. After the cease fire, the bodies were dug up and received a proper burial.

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Liberia
Ganta, June 2003

In the summer of 2003, the Liberian government of the former war lord, now president, Charles Taylor is challenged by two rebel movements. The town of Ganta, on the border with Guinnée, has just been recaptured from LURD-rebels. Female members of Taylor’s armed forces standing on guard.

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Liberia
Ganta, June 2003

The government of Charles Taylor is challenged by two rebel movements. The town of Ganta, on the border with Guinnée, has just been recaptured from LURD-rebels. Government soldiers on a pick up truck with a piece of anti aircraft gun.

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Rwanda
Goma, border between Zaïre and Rwanda, July 1994

A mass grave of cholera victims. Children cover their noses against the dust and stench.

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Rwanda
Kigali, May 1994

A Hutu was molested by Tutsis after being identified as a member of the Hutu led “Interahamwe” death squads that carried out the Rwandan genocide. Photographers taking pictures of the wounded man.

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Sierra Leone
Freetown, May 2000

Three year old Memuna Mansarah was shot by rebels when they withdrew from Freetown early 1999. Her arm had to be amputated.

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Sierra Leone
Freetown, May 2000

A girl with her favorite doll.

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