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Gilles Peress | The Silence Baptismal records of a parish church in Nyarubuye lie in debris left from the slaughter of 1 000 Tutsi refugees by Hutu militia. The refugees had sought shelter at the parish. Rwanda. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence Photo-album found at a massacre site. Nyamata, Rwanda. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence Hutus living in this house scrawled their ethnicity on the wall to prevent looting. The advance of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Army caused the Hutus to flee in turn. Rwanda. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence The body of a slain looter on the ground in front of the Parish of Rukara, a church some 45 kilometers southwest of Nagali. People who had looted the church were captured and killed by guards, thei (...)
Gilles Peress | The Silence The remains of Rwandan refugees who were slaughtered at the parish of Nyarubuye. Their bodies remained undiscovered for 44 days after the killings. Rwanda. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence Clothing and bleached bones were all that remained of this refugee, slain with over 1 000 others at the parish church of Nyarubuye. Rwanda. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence Rwandan refugee camp in the Ngara region, near the border with Rwanda. Tanzania. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence Hospital near a concentration camp. Kabgayi, Rwanda. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence At the base of Rosumo falls, some of the hundreds of thousands of victims of Rwanda's tribal violence wash up in the Akagera River. Rwanda. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence Rwandan refugee camp, in the region of Ngara, near the Rwanda border. Tanzania. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence Tutsi corpses litter the floor of a classroom at a parish in Nyarubuye. Rwanda. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress ZAIRE. Goma. 1994. The victims of a severe cholera epidemic that spread throughout refugee camps in Goma, are buried. The dead were Rwandan refugees. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress | The Silence Rwandan cholera victims are buried as a severe cholera epidemic spread throughout refugee camps. Goma, Zaire. 1994. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos
Gilles Peress ZAIRE. Goma. 1994. Rwandan cholera victims are buried as a severe cholera epidemic spread throughout refugee camps. © Gilles Peress | Magnum Photos