Afghanistan, 1996 - Mourning a brother killed by a Taliban rocket.
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Afghanistan, 1996 - The game of Buzkashi was brought to the country by
Genghis Khan.
Buzkashi is a traditional sport played on horseback. The steppes' people were skilled riders who could grab a goat or calf from the ground while riding a horse at full gallop. The goal of a player is to grab the carcass of a headless goat or calf and then get it clear of the other players and pitch it across a goal line or into a target circle or vat.
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Afghanistan, 1996 - Land mine victims learned to walk on prosthetic legs
at ICRC clinic.
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Afghanistan, 1996 - Ruins of Kabul from civil war.
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Zimbabwe, 2000 - In a tuberculosis ward where the great majority of the patients suffer from AIDS.
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South Africa, 2000 - Grandmother cared for young girl affected by HIV.
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South Africa, 2000 - Care giver comforted an AIDS sufferer.
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Northern Ireland, 1981 - Truck hijacked by Catholic demonstrators during the hunger strike of Bobby Sands.
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Afghanistan, 1986 - Mujahedin praying while on an operation against the
Soviet army.
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El Salvador, 1984 - Army evacuated wounded soldiers from village football field.
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Romania, 1990 - An orphanage for " incurables".
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Romania, 1990 - An orphan in an institution for "incurables”
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Bosnia, 1993 - Ethnic cleansing in Mostar. Croat militiaman fires on his Moslem neighbors.
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Bosnia, 1993 - Wounded soldier.
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Bosnia, 1993 - Mourning a soldier killed in the civil war.
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Bosnia, 1993 - Mourning a soldier killed by Serbs and buried in what was
once a football field.
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Sudan, 1993 - Famine victim in a feeding center.
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Somalia, 1992 - Child starved by famine, a man-made weapon of mass
extermination.
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Somalia, 1992 - Famine victim sewn into burial shroud.
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Somalia, 1992 - Lifting a dead son to carry him to a mass grave during
the famine.
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Pakistan, 2001 - A rehab center for heroin addicts.
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Pakistan 2001 - Heroin addicts.
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Zaire, 1994 - Hutu refugees were struck by cholera and buried in mass
graves.
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Rwanda, 1994 - Survivor of Hutu death camp.
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New York, 2001 - Collapse of south tower of World Trade Center.
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New York, 2001 - Searching for survivors.
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New York, 2001 - Ruins of World Trade Center.
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New York, 2001 - Ground Zero.
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Thanks to Himesh for this wonderful share
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