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Western Sahara: The Forgotten People
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 22 July 2009
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As soon as the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara started and the vicious and bloody war diffused, nearly 200,000 Saharawis made their way across the desert, under aerial bombardment, to refugee camps in Algeria. Five camps were created under the control of the Polisario Front - the Sahawaris’ national liberation movement, which had appeared [...]

Cambodia: Land Mine Survivors
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 3 July 2009
Stats: 3,199 views and 3 Comments

Decades of war have left scars in many forms throughout Cambodia. Mines, the most lasting legacy of the conflicts, continues to claim new victims daily.
Unofficial reports estimate that more than 40,000 Cambodians have suffered amputations as a result of mine injuries in the past 30 years. International NGOs, together with local authorities, are now trying [...]

Russia: Searching The Forests
By Alexey Pivovarov
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 22 June 2009
Stats: 1,255 views and 1 Comment

Today it’s exactly 68 years since Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Early morning, 22 June 1941, the war referred to in the East as “the Great Patriotic War” started. It was to become an exceedingly brutal war, the largest war theatre of World War 2 and the most deadliest conflict in human history. Millions [...]

Iraq: Local Police Taking Over
By Sebastian Meyer
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, news & global, slides on 16 June 2009
Stats: 2,145 views and 5 Comments

Iraq’s Kirkuk region, roughly 250 km / 150 miles north of Bagdad, is a major oil production site. Since the American led invasion of 2003, it has had it’s share of suicide attacks and car bombings. Insurgents have been know to target local police forces, seen as collaborators with the US Military.
By 2011 all American [...]

Israel: Portraits of Terror
By Rafael Ben-Ari
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, slides on 27 May 2009
Stats: 1,631 views and 2 Comments

Since the Israeli disengagement from Gaza 4 years ago, I have worked and lived in the area of the town of Sderot located in the southern part of Israel, less than a mile from Gaza. The town has become my “Photography Focused Subject”. I have photographed hundreds of Kassam rocket attacks that have struck, hurt [...]

India: The Believers
By Massimiliano Clausi
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 25 May 2009
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More than 50.000 displaced, thousands of houses destroyed, churches burnt in the dozens, around one hundred people killed and more than two hundred still missing, twelve relief camps set up in a hurry to provide the fleeing Christian tribes of Khandamal with some shelter.

This is the result of the Hindus’ rage eruption that hit hard [...]