In November 1988 21 men from the village of El Aguacate near the town of Chimaltenango, disappeared and later were found in mass graves. The Guatemalan army blamed the insurgents from a group called ORPA and brought the corpses to the funeral with military escort.
Investigation later showed that it was the army itself which had tortured and killed the men.
Kosovo, early June 1999: hours after Serb forces left the small town of Malisheva, UCK (KLA) fighters and refugees pour into the largely destroyed town.
Various pictures from the war in Kosovo:
A NATO bomb explode in the hills, Dead Serb soldiers in Koshares, a UCK funeral in Kleshka, UCK coming under mortar-fire close to the village of Jujudel in South Kosovo, refugees hiding in the forest, etc., etc.
On the 12th of September 1992 Peruvian forces captured the leader of the Maoist Shining Path insurgent, Abimael Guzman aka "Presidente Gonzalo" and put him on display to the media. A cameraman from Peruvian pro-government Channel 2 is shown shouting insults towards the prisoner.
Early April 1999 UCK (KLA) lauched an offensive from their bases in Albania and a few days later they took over the Serbian base "Karaulla" in Kosares. Fleeing the base, Serb soldiers left everything from weapons to personal photos.
Drenica, early June 1999; when Serb forces withdrew, the Kosovars returned home and started looking for missing relatives. An estimated 10.000 Kosovars had been killed by the Serbs and in some areas the destruction to Albanian homes and holy places were nearly total.
After an Shining Path ambush killed over 20 soldiers, the Peruvian army goes into an nearby village and arrests all teachers, calling them "terror-teachers"
After the Serb withdrawal from Kosovo in June 1999, the full extent of their atrocities were known. These pictures show what is left of an extended family of 26 persons in Cara Luka (Malisheva) and an extended family of 48 persons from Poklek. In Poklek the sole survivor shows pictures of the women and children killed and burned by Serb forces.
On the 9th of April 2003 the regime of Saddam Hussein fall, sparking celebration in Shiite areas of Baghdad and widespread looting all over the capital.
For days after the Saddam-regime fell in 2003, US forces kept the bridges over Tigris blocked. On one of these bridges, burned out vehicles with dead Iraqis were used as barricade.
Around noon on the 9th of April 2003, US marines enters Farouz Square in central Baghdad and give the press-corpse the images they need - without ever having to leave their hotel...
