All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘conflict’
In search of diamonds – Kono, Sierra Leone
I went in search of diamonds, riches, wealth, freedom from this mundane dumb-motherfucker world – and found it …
Read More →FMLN Base – Perquin, El Salvador
The rebel – FMLN – wartime stronghold in the mounatins of northern El Salvador during the Civil War that lasted [...]
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Elusive Peace – Israel & Palestine, Jerusalem
For over 60 years – this conflict still has no ‘solution’ for long term peace. I have seen both sides and met nice people from both sides and hence, remain neutral … Both cultures share super-sacred religious sites near each other, as depicted here, sharing the same surrounds, each with their beautiful and brutal histories barely co-existing.
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DMZ – Korea
Korea – DMZ [ The De-Militarized Zone is a 4 km strip separating South Korea from Communist North Korea ]. JSA /Joint Security Area tour at Panmunjom, stuck within the DMZ and administered by both sides, where the views of the North are clear and where the tension is just metres apart …
Read More →Stalingrad Memorial – Volgagrad, Russia
Mother Russia war memorial in Stalingrad (since renamed Volgagrad) is famous as the city of the most colossal, brutal, landmark battle of the Second World War.
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Keeping the peace – East Timor
VIDEO: School children watch an Australian United Nations Peacekeeping Force of Striker APCs in Maliana, East Timor.
Read More →In the mountains of Ainaro, East Timor
A single bulb glows over a wooden table. The kitchen is smoky. A few plastic chairs, bottles of cooking oil and water and spices, and a gas burner with wok, sits amid the bare concrete walls and floor. Old roofing iron patches the empty window frames. Smoke from a fire wafts inside to my eyes …
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