Rwandan genocide

During the 1994 genocide, Ugandan fishermen found themselves pulling dozens of bodies out of Lake Victoria. The badly decomposed bodies had traveled hundreds of miles by river from Rwanda.

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B Bretz says:

Truly haunting
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Walter_Ezell says:

No words. . .
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

giacomos50at says:

terrible
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

glenOX says:

Im speechless!!!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

canecillo2 says:

Brutal, sin palabras
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

kymak says:

yes speechless..
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Thx for posting this haunting image. If you're not planning to commercialize this, I'd encourage you to change the license to allow derivative works, so that people doing human rights would could integrate it. Seen in DocuMantra ~ Documentary Photography group.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

daveblume says:

I'd prefer that if someone wants to use if for human rights work, they contact me first so I can approve its use . .
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

redspeed147 says:

terribile..nn ci sono parole...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

A deployed Soldier (OIF) says:

i can think of no other words other than thank you for sharing this image with the world.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

daveblume says:

Well I'm a little startled at how many view this photo has gotten, but I suppose that's a good thing, to shine the light on so pure a form of evil, in the hopes that humankind will never again allow such a thing to happen.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Stop Genocide of Tamils by Sri Lankan Government says:

Tamil Women in protective custody, transferred to Ruthless Genocidal Sri Lankan Army detention centre, fear for safety

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 December 2008, 00:40 GMT]
The women and children who faced death threats in Jaffna from the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and its paramilitary and placed under protective custody through the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission in Jaffna at Kurunakar Rehabilitation Centre have been suddenly moved to the detention camp run by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) inside its High Security Zone in Thellippazhai. The women and children are being denied the opportunity of meeting their family members besides fear for their safety, according to legal sources in Jaffna. They have appealed to the team of Magistrates who visited the camp to relocate them to a protection facility in Jaffna city.

Kurunakar Rehabilitation Centre was vacated in order to house persons fleeing from war in Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held territories to Jaffna peninsula.

Meanwhile, the husbands of the above women, placed in Jaffna Prison had protested against the sudden transfer of their wives by observing a token protest fast.

Their fast, however, was given up due to pressure exerted by powerful parties in the government, the sources further said.

The women who appealed to the team of magistrates pointed out that the opportunity of meeting their family members and relatives, which they had been allowed to in Kurunakar Rehabilitation Centre, is denied in the SLA detention centre where they are now housed.

The husbands of these women in Jaffna Prison suffer from mental depression and fear for their wives and children, the officials of Jaffna Prison said.

The inmates at the detention camp of the SLA, located inside the HSZ in Thellippazhai, have been treated as 'suspects' under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), as they were forced to sign a document which stated that they were ex-members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) in the past.

Although, the new inmates were not subjected to sign a such document, they were being treated as potential 'terror suspects' by the SLA men guarding the detention centre, legal sources that were in contact with the families said.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

A. Kowalik says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called "Exodus" in the XXI century, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

travelgirla says:

oh my god ....
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

thecreationruin says:

Did you take this picture? I don't know much about Flickr but I'm going to Uganda and will be sharing pictures so I've been checking out other photos from the area.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

daveblume says:

Yes, I took this picture.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Thorbj¢rn says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Visual Anthropology, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

william.nocetti says:

La bestia umana non ha proprio limiti !!!!!!!!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Stop Genocide of Tamils by Sri Lankan Government says:

Oh my god. UN is f*cked up. Not saving the people. Instead they go and f*ck around with prostitutes.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Trinity35 says:

how awful
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Manyiel says:

unable to comment!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

lampy29 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called worldchangeforum,org, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Wow. This is powerful beyond words.

Peace,
-Matt
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

katieisi says:

holy. crap. that is really all i can think of! these poor people! people here should see this and other pictures pictures of these terrible things that are happening over there! this will completely change what people think and whether or not they think it's an important cause to help, because it is!
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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Rwandan genocide

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