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Jonathan Torgovnik - Valerie with her son, Robert. “The genocide started when I was fifteen. All the Tutsis from this area ran up the hill where the strong men from the area were resisting. That day they killed many people. My two brothers, sister, and parents were killed that day.”
Jonathan Torgovnik - Valentine with her daughters, Amelie and Inez. “I was raped every night, and during the day, they locked me in. I love my first daughter more because I gave birth to her as a result of love. Her father was my husband. The second girl is a result of unwanted circumstance. I never loved her father.”
Jonathan Torgovnik - Olivia with her son, Marco. About ten thousand people had fled to the church compound. After a week, militia started attacking us. It was a terrible experience. They entered with machetes, with axes, with grenades and guns. They started cutting into the crowd. It was all noise, crying, and the killing did not stop.”
Jonathan Torgovnik - Odette with her son, Martin. "When the militiaman was going to rape me, I begged him kindly, saying, “I’m still a student. I’m still young. Wait. When I finish school, I will be your wife, but please don’t rape me.”
Jonathan Torgovnik - Isabelle with her son, Jean-Paul. “I am physically handicapped because of the beatings that I endured and I can’t carry anything. I can’t work. All I can do is sit down.”
Jonathan Torgovnik - Philomena with her daughter, Juliette. “Today, I have a big challenge; I am a mother but feel unwilling to be a mother. I don’t love this child. Whenever I look at this child, the memories of rape return.”
Jonathan Torgovnik - Sylvina with her daughter, Marianne. “I cannot really tell you how many men came to rape me. All I know is that four months later, I was pregnant, I felt so bad, I tried committing suicide twice. But deep down I said to myself, You don’t know why you stayed alive when all your family members died. There must be a reason.”
Marcus Bleasdale - The body of a teenage boy, killed after a bombing by government jets, lies on the ground outside the village of Jijira Adi Abbe, Western Darfur, Sudan in December 2007.
Marcus Bleasdale - Khadija Ishar who is from Chad and her daughter Husseinya in their hut in the displaced camp in Mareina Eastern Chad. The mother gave birth to twins but due to the forced walk from her village after it was attacked and the resulting lack of food the second child was stillborn.
Marcus Bleasdale - SLA Militia ready to leave on mission in Adre Eastern Chad.
Marcus Bleasdale - Representatives of UNHCR discuss figures during a food distribution in Chad 2004.
Marcus Bleasdale - Mahasine Halou 12 years lies in hospital after the attack on Adre. Her family was killed apart from her and her father by the rebel attack. She suffered injuries to her leg that were so severe she had to have her right leg amputated. She is additionally blind from birth.
Marcus Bleasdale - A Janjaweed riding back to his Fariq in South Eastern Chad.
Marcus Bleasdale - Multinational force soldiers gather water after repelling an attack on Adre for the second time in a week. The first attack left 180 injured and over forty civilians injured. The dead were approximated at 50. The second attack 5 days later left 8 dead and 7 injured.
Marcus Bleasdale - The Sudanese Refugee Camp Djamal home to over 20,000 for the past 2 years. They are now neighbours to an additional 10000 chadians across the valley who are displaced by recent janjaweed attacks in southern Chad.
Marcus Bleasdale - A Lendu soldier sits on a bed in a makeshift hospital in Drodro, Ituri District, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, in August 2006.
Marcus Bleasdale - Three soldiers of General Mathieu Ngudjolo, leader of the Mouvement Revolutionnaire Congolais, stand in the village of Gety, Ituri District, Democratic Republic of Congo, in August 2006. In light of current peace negotiations, the chance of an agreement or that negotiations will lead to a solution are minimal.
Marcus Bleasdale - The body of Sakura Lisi, an eight-month-old child of an artisan gold miner, is washed in Mongbwalu, Ituri District, Democratic Republic of Congo in October 2004, in preparation for the burial. She died of anemia brought on by malaria. Illness and disease are rife with malaria being the biggest killer.
Marcus Bleasdale - Two dead bodies of Hema men lie on a road after being executed just hours ago by Lendu militias north of Fataki, Ituri District, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, in August 2003.
Marcus Bleasdale - The body of a dead soldier from the Congolese government military, FARDC, lies in a road several kilometers outside Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on Nov. 12 2008.
Marcus Bleasdale - Child soldiers of a local Mai-Mai militia wait for a CNDP advance in Kanyabayonga, Democratic Republic of Congo on Nov. 14 2008.
Marcus Bleasdale - Killed in 2003 by soldiers in the Union of Congolese Patriots, Nyamezi Adwoli, 53, and her 6-year-old daughter Ndadazi Adwoli's bones lie in the grass on Oct. 27, 2008 in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Marcus Bleasdale - A child soldier of the Union des Patriotes Congolais, UPC, rides back to his base on a bicycle carrying an AK-47 in Bule, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo in August 2003. The DRC contains one of the highest numbers of child soldiers in the world.
Ron Haviv - Young girls leave a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) to gather firewood. For some the work will take more than 7 hours and lead them past government checkpoints and leave them exposed to attacks. Girls as young as 8 have been raped, attacked and killed trying to get wood.
Ron Haviv - Daily life at a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Selia, West Darfur, Sudan, June 21, 2005.
Ron Haviv - Daily life at a camp for internally displaced people in Selia, West Darfur, Sudan, June 21, 2005.
Ron Haviv - A resident from the mountainous Jebel Moon area in West Darfur, Sudan, June 20, 2005. The area has been controlled by various rebel groups and attacked by the army a number of times.
Ron Haviv - A child's painting in a camp for Sudanese refugees in Iridimi, Chad, June 18, 2005.
Ron Haviv - Sudanese teachers seen in a classroom at a school situated in Tabit, North Darfur, an area controlled by the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA), June 6, 2005.
Ron Haviv - The imprint remains of a Kosovar Albanian burned by Serbian forces in Drenica, Kosovo, June 29, 1999.
Ron Haviv - Ethnic Cleansing - After having survived the Serb attack on Srebrenica, grievors learn of the fall of the United Nations safe haven, Tuzla, Bosnia, July 15, 1995. More than 7,000 Bosnian men were killed and tens of thousands were forced to flee.
Ron Haviv - Ethnic Cleansing - Croatians walk through destroyed streets as they are expelled from Vukovar, Croatia by Serbian soldiers, Nov. 19, 1991. Vukovar was under siege for three months by Serbian forces and was completely destroyed.
Ron Haviv - A defaced photograph that was found by a Bosnian family when they returned to their home in a suburb of Sarajevo, Bosnia, March 17, 1996.
Ron Haviv - Ethnic Cleansing - Arkan's Tigers kill and kick Bosnian Muslim civilians during the first battle for Bosnia in Bijeljina, Bosnia, March 31, 1992. The Serbian paramilitary unit was responsible for killing thousands of people during the Bosnian war, and Arkan was later indicted for war crimes.
Ron Haviv - Ethnic Cleansing - Bodies lie on the ground in a makeshift morgue in Vukovar, Croatia because shelling was so heavy during the last weeks of the siege of Vukovar that burial was impossible, Nov. 19, 1991. The entire city of Vukovar was destroyed and ethnically cleansed of the Croatian inhabitants.
Ron Haviv - Serbian father and son pose in newly captured territory. Fall 1991.
Ron Haviv - The sole survivor of a massacre finds his home in ruins after the Bosnian army recaptured his village from Serb forces in the fall of 1995. He is standing on what is believed to be a mass grave of sixty-nine people, including his family.
Ron Haviv - A Muslim in Bilijenia, Bosnia begs for his life after capture by Arkan's Tigers in the spring of 1992.
Ron Haviv - Violence and Destruction - Bosnian and Croatian prisoners of war at the prison camp in Manjaca, Bosnia, Aug. 22, 1992. All sides of the Bosnian conflict ran prison camps, where many people were killed, and several commanders were later indicted for war crimes.
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