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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pictured in the doorway to what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 9 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: 'World, Help us' reads a sign outside the Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in central Kyiv. By the monastery have been placed the remains of cars and military tanks destroyed in the battle of Kyiv, when Russian miltary forces tried to overtake the city of Kyiv following an invasion of the country in late February 2022. The city, however, held sway and Russian military forces eventually withdrew. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 9 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A collection of so-called 'hedgehogs', large metal constructions used to block roads specifically so that tanks cannot pass, sit on the side of the road at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti --Independence Square -- the central square of Kyiv, capital city of Ukraine. As Russian military forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, such hedgehogs were placed as barricades to prevent Russian troops from advancing into the heart of the city of Kyiv. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Members of Guatemala's elite Kaibiles--a repressive army's most feared soldiers--during a ceremony at their base in the remote north of the Central American country.
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  • 5 May 2016, Jerusalem: The wall dividing Israelis from Palestinians.
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  • Two bombs went off in the crowd in Diyarbakir, Turkey, five people were killed and more than 400 injured were carried to ambulances. Violent attacks against Kurdish people are a motor behind displacement in the region.<br />
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Here an injured man is carried by panicking members of the crowd.
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  • PORT-AU-PRINCE - 20 APRIL 2004 - US Marines on patrol in Haiti's capital. Police officers here make an occasional show of public force during the daytime, but are locked in their barracks at night. Foreign troops, including US, French, Chilean, and Canadian soldiers, provide backup and a public presence..
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  • 5 May 2016, Jerusalem: The wall dividing Israelis from Palestinians.
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  • A man was taken by police, accused of travelling armed and accompanying a vehicle carrying foreigners, thought by the crowd to be brought into the country to vote illegally for the right-wing ARENA party.
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  • Family and friends dress the body of Carlos Martinez, a 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death on October 2, 2011, on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduras businessmen. The Honduran security forces have militarized the area, and killings of peasant leaders have become common. Many of the cooperatives were started with assistance from Catholic priests and lay pastors in the region, and some Catholic leaders remain close supporters of the peasant movement. A sister of Martinez claimed he was killed by a security guard from a nearby plantation belonging to Miguel Facusse, the wealthiest of Honduran landowners.
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  • 6 October 2018, Jordan Valley, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: 40-year-old Deab Abu Malik herds his sheep in the Jordan Valley on the West Bank. Deab looks on as an Israeli settler drives by on a motorbike, wondering if they will stop to raise dust over the Bedouins’ presence. Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine in Israel accompany shepherds in many parts of the West Bank, providing an international presence known to have a mitigating effect on confrontations between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians. EAs' presence also helps Palestinians access lands they otherwise might not have dared to continue to cultivate. In the West Bank’s Area C, any land that isn’t cultivated for a period of three years becomes property of the state, the shepherds explain, so accessing their lands regularly is vital for the communities and their herds.
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  • A senior policeman discussed with an angry crowd outside the Cuscatlán stadium the night before the general elections in 2009. The stadium had a large number of buses with Guatemalan and Honduran number plates, believed to have brought illegal voters into the city as part of a fraud by the ARENA party to remain in power.
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  • A skull emerges from the earth as a mass grave is exhumed in Tabil, Guatemala, on July 4, 1997, by a team of forensic anthropologists from the Human Rights Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala City. Thirteen people were hurriedly buried in the grave after being executed in April 1982 by government soldiers.<br />
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The exhumation was part of work in the Maya K'iche' community carried out by the Catholic Church's Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory (REHMI).
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  • 12 October 2018, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The separation barrier cuts through Bethlehem, separating the Israeli side from the Palestinian one, near Checkpoint 300.
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  • The day before the general election in San Salvador, a man wearing an ARENA T-shirt under his shirt was caught by an angry crowd amid suspicions that ARENA was bringing in fraudent voters from Honduras and Guatemala to swing the election.
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  • A Greek Orthodox church building is dwarfed by the presence and symbol of a gun tower in the Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem.
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  • 12 October 2018, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: The separation barrier cuts through Bethlehem, separating the Israeli side from the Palestinian one. Here, a group of visitors walk towards Checkpoint 300, to cross into Israel.
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  • Simon Peter Gamana (right) and Charles Gorden patrol the forest near their village of Riimenze, in Southern Sudan's Western Equatoria State, on the look out for the Lord's Resistance Army, which has displaced tens of thousands in recent months along the border area. Many believe the northern Sudan government is behind the attacks in its desire to destabilize the south in the period leading to a January 2011 referendum on secession. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Many thousands took to the streets waving Kurdish and HDP flags, cheering and honking car horns to celebrate the HDP electoral success in Diyarbakir. Diyarbakir is a mainly Kurdish city of around one million inhabitants.
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  • A demonstrator prepares to hurtle a smoking tear gas canister back at police during November 27, 2012, protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The protestors were upset by Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi's November 22nd decision to assume sweeping new powers.
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  • 12 October 2018, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Leaves grow through a fence in Bethlehem, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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  • An ARENA vehicle was stopped by an angry crowd in San Salvador and the people inside were accused of travelling armed and accompanying a vehicle carrying foreigners, thought by the crowd to be brought into the country to vote illegally for the right-wing ARENA party.
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  • An Indian soldier, part of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), stands in a Port-au-Prince street while other soldiers secure the area behind him in a security operation following the January 12 earthquake.
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  • Two bombs went off in the crowd in Diyarbakir, Turkey, five people were killed and more than 400 injured were carried to ambulances. Violent attacks against Kurdish people are a motor behind displacement in the region.<br />
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Here a woman cries as she looks for a member of her family.
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  • Members of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units training at their base near Alqosh, Iraq, on April 12, 2016. The Assyrian militia group was formed by Christians displaced by ISIS from Qaraqosh and other towns in the Nineveh Plain in 2014. Their goal is to take back their homeland and make it a semi-autonomous province within Iraq.
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  • Two bombs went off in the crowd in Diyarbakir, Turkey, five people were killed and more than 400 injured were carried to ambulances. Violent attacks against Kurdish people are a motor behind displacement in the region.<br />
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The floor here is covered in blood, shoes, personal belonging from victims, a literal bloodbath.
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  • A demonstrator prepares to hurtle a smoking tear gas canister back at police during November 25, 2012, protests in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square. The protestors were upset by Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi's November 22nd decision to assume sweeping new powers.
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  • Two bombs went off in the crowd in Diyarbakir, Turkey, five people were killed and more than 400 injured were carried to ambulances. Violent attacks against Kurdish people are a motor behind displacement in the region.<br />
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The floor here is covered in blood, shoes, personal belonging from victims, a literal bloodbath.
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  • John Simba, a member of an ACT Alliance team, searches for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
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  • Troops from the Israeli Defense Forces on patrol in the old city of Hebron, a West Bank Palestinian town where several hundred Israeli settlers have lived since 1997, protected by thousands of Israeli soldiers. Relations between Israelis and Palestinians are tense, and violence often breaks out.
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  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
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  • Israeli soldiers on patrol in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank of the Occupied Territories, where tensions between Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers--who are protected by the soldiers--often turn violent.
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  • Abigail Ozanne, a United Methodist from the United States serving as a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, keeps an eye on a checkpoint in the old city of Hebron during the hour that children pass through on the way to school. Children are often harassed by settlers and soldiers, and the CPTers seek to protect the kids with their presence.
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  • A family shares a meal inside their shelter in a camp for more than 12,000 internally displaced persons located on the grounds of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced in June, 2016, when armed conflict engulfed Wau.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Hassan Kossar places hand grenades in a sandbag for transport to a safe disposal site. The grenades were found by an ACT Alliance team as it searched for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Kossar, from Somaliland, is a senior technical advisor to the explosive ordnance disposal team, part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Bobana, a 26-year old woman in Gradiska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She lost her hands to an explosion of ordnance during the conflict that engulfed her country. Dedicated to photography, she hasn't let her disability stop her, and she participates actively in a local cooperative of artists who are also survivors of war-related violence.
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  • John Ochola was kidnapped from his Ugandan village of Giligili in 2003 by the Lord's Resistance Army. After being held for several days, LRA soldiers cut off his ears, nose, hands, and part of his lips. Thousands of young people have been mutilated by the LRA in over two decades of conflict.
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  • A rebel fighter in Misrata, Libya. Behind him are tanks of troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi which were destroyed in NATO air strikes.
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  • Members of the African Union force on patrol in Labado, in the Darfur region of Sudan, in 2005. The AU force, which was unable to stem the violence, was absorbed in early 2008 into a larger peacekeeping force under the control of the United Nations. The conflict in Darfur has killed some 400,000 people and left 2.5 million displaced since 2003.
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  • Police face off against demonstrators during November 27, 2012, protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The protestors were upset by Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi's November 22nd decision to assume sweeping new powers.
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  • A woman demonstrator pushes back at police as displaced residents of Boeung Lake in Phnom Penh, who were left homeless after the government allowed a private developer to move them out and fill in the lake, attempt to protest in the Cambodian capital on December 10, 2012. They planned to take their protest to the prime minister's office, but police stopped them far short of their goal. Their protest took place on International Human Rights Day.  Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
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  • Skulls piled in a monument in the Killing Fields at Cheung Ek, where over 17,000 Cambodians were executed by the Khmer Rouge.
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  • A Zapatista combatant, Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico, 1998.
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  • Police in Mexico City form a line against a demonstration in 2008.
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  • 10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A security officer walks through the rubble caused by a missile blast to the Taras Shevchenko Park in central Kyiv. In the morning of 10 October, 75 Russian missiles were reported to have been fired at cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A woman walks through the rubble and shards of glass on the street of Vulytsya Tereshchenkivsʹka in central Kyiv, which hours earlier was hit by a Russian missile. In the morning of 10 October, 75 Russian missiles were reported to have been fired at cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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