Warning: Some of the images below are graphic and show victims of massacres. On April 7, 1994, one of the most harrowing events in modern history began: the Rwandan genocide. One hundred days of unfathomable slaughter in which an estimated 800,000-1,000,000 people were killed. Rwandans were pitted against Rwandans, Hutu…
The proposal initially sparked an uproar. In October 2022, then-Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and 18 top officials called on the international community to send a “specialised armed force” to help combat the spread of gang violence in Haiti. But Haiti has struggled with a long, fraught history of foreign…
Kedah, Malaysia – Until six months ago, none of the inhabitants of the village of Bukit Choras, set amid rice fields near the steep and lush hill of the same name in northwestern Malaysia, had any idea they had been living next to an archaeological wonder all their lives. It…
Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Amsterdam against Israel’s war on Gaza. Israeli President Isaac Herzog has attended the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where his presence prompted protests over Israel’s war in Gaza. The opening took place on Sunday as pro-Palestine demonstrators chanted “Never again…
Aveiro, Brazil – The flames roared higher than a hundred feet, sending smoke billowing across the jungle. Boars scattered from the underbrush. Toucans shot from the trees. And thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest soon crumbled into ash. It was 1928, and a vast stretch of land in north-central Brazil…
Kolkata, India – At the three-storey building of Sarada Shishu Vidya Mandir, a school for grades five to 10 in Uluberia town in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, students gather every day at the prayer hall 15 minutes before their classes begin. The walls in the prayer hall…
Hawaiians respond to a threat of nuclear attack and a survivor tells of coping with the Hiroshima bombing. It is 41 minutes and 40 seconds to midnight in Honolulu. Heat rises from the asphalt in Hawaii’s capital. It is a beautiful day and people are out for strolls and running…
Batumi, Georgia – Natalia Kuznetsova stares tight-lipped at the abandoned house her grandfather Hasan Dishli Oglu built in the 1930s. Her father was just a toddler in 1937 when Hasan, then 33, was arrested by the Soviet secret police. He was never heard from again. “When my father was dying, in…
The Israeli military carries out unprecedented slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza while the world watches on. Israel is driving ahead with its war on Gaza that many have called a genocide. The vast majority of people it has killed are Palestinian civilians, while its military campaign is failing to destroy…
About 75 items are to go under the hammer in a deal between Mandela’s family and a New York-based auctioneer. The South African government has said it will challenge the auctioning of dozens of artefacts belonging to the nation’s anti-apartheid stalwart Nelson Mandela, saying the items are of historical significance…
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