Burundi - DRC Refugees - Gatumba Refugee Camp Survivors

A Gatumba massacre victim shows her scars. On August 13, 2004 a force of armed combatants, many of them members of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL), massacred at least 152 Congolese civilians and wounded another 106 at Gatumba refugee camp. The FNL is a predominantly Hutu rebel movement known for its hostility to Tutsi and the victims were largely Banyamulenge, an ethnic group often categorized with Tutsi. But the massacre was more than just another case of ethnically-targeted slaughter in a region known for such horrors. At the intersection of two faltering peace processes, the attack underlined the continuing political conflicts within both the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi and made them worse. The Gatumba camp provided shelter for 1,700 refugees who had fled DR Congo in June 2004.

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Famine in Somalia

Starving Somali in Mogadishu. Since 1988, the civil war disrupted the economy and food distribution. In 1992, the UN launched a peacekeeping and humanitarian operation called UNOSOM I (United Nations Operation in Somalia).

Photographer: Bernard Bisson

NATO Troops Entering Kosovo During the War

NATO troops entering Kosovo during the war for a peace-keeping mission. NATO plans to deploy nearly 50,000 troops in Kosovo as Yugoslav forces withdraw, as outlined in a peace agreement signed by Yugoslavia and NATO generals.

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