Object Type: Folder
In Folder: National Women and Media Collection
A Burundian boy in the Mututu refugee camp near Butare, Rwanda, shivers in the cold, January 15, 1994. An October 1993 coup in Burundi which unseated and killed the president produced a wave of refugees across the northern Burundi border into southern Rwanda.
January 15, 1994
A Chilean woman is fanned with a newspaper after she was overcome by teargas fired by the national law enforcement group, the Carabineros of Chile, in downtown Santiago, Chile, days before the plebiscite vote in October 1988. The plebiscite “NO” vote ended dictator Augusto Pinochet’s 16-year rule.
October 1988
A Chilean women being attended to after being overcome by teargas fired by the national law enforcement group, the Carabineros of Chile, in downtown Santiago, Chile, days before the plebiscite vote in October 1988. The plebiscite “NO” vote ended dictator Augusto Pinochet’s 16-year rule.
October 1988
Chilean youth are overcome with emotion after learning of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s defeat in a plebiscite vote in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 5, 1988. The plebiscite “NO” vote ended dictator Augusto Pinochet’s 16-year rule.
October 5, 1988
Alleged Colombian sicarios, or hired assassins, behind bars in Bogotá’s La Picota prison, January 1990. The killing of cartel kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha on December 18, 1989, set off a riot a week later in the high security prison in which inmates died and hostages were taken.
January 1990
Eula Franklin and her neighbor supplement their incomes during the summer by clearing weeds in the cotton fields of Hayti Heights, Missouri, July 1982.
July 1982
Cuban leader Fidel Castro addresses the crowd gathered at the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana for Cuban Independence Day, May 20, 1990.
May 20, 1990
Celebration of the signing of the El Salvador peace accord outside the capital San Salvador on January 16, 1992. An FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) rebel combatant is among those who gathered outside San Salvador to mark the occasion of a peace treaty signed between the Salvadoran government and the FMLN at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, ending a 12-year war.
January 16, 1992
A hippopotamus eyes a Nile crocodile in Akagera National Park in Kayonza District of northeastern Rwanda, May 9, 2014.
May 9, 2014
A homeless woman at New Year’s Day Mass at the Basilica de Monserrate in Bogotá, Colombia, Jan. 1, 1990.
January 1, 1990
A Klan wife adjusts her husband’s robe and hood during a “homecoming march” in protest of the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday in Pulaski, Tennessee, the birthplace of the Klan, January 18, 1986.
January 18, 1986
Liberian warlord Charles Taylor shows off his “pet” camel to Associated Press photographers at his home ranch in Gbarnga, Liberia, February 1994.
February 1994
A late-night argument over the pool score at the Paradise Inn Lounge and Bar in Hayti Heights, Missouri, August 1982.
August 1982
Rwandan schoolboys run and play on their way home from school at the Remera Catholic Primary School in the capital, Kigali, April 2014.
April 2014
Afternoon recess over, Rwandan schoolgirls race back to class in Remera, a neighborhood in Kigali, Rwanda, April 2014.
April 2014
Sally Stapleton, an Associated Press senior photo editor for Latin America and East and West Africa, watches a mass burial ceremony for 2,000 victims of the Rwandan genocide in the commune of Taba, west of the capital Kigali, February 1995. The young boy in front of Stapleton, Emmanuel, lost his parents during the 1994 genocide and was living with his aunt 10 months later.
February 1995
A single-horned male waterbuck antelope in Akagera National Park in Kayonza District of northeastern Rwanda, May 9, 2014.
May 9, 2014
Ten months after the Rwandan Genocide, survivors in the Rwandan commune of Taba gather remains for a mass burial ceremony, February 1995. Two thousand victims are buried in two mass graves in Taba.
February 1995
