P04111.010
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial licensed copyright
- ID number
- P04111.010
- Photographer
- Gittoes, George
- Object type
- Colour - Film original transparency (positive) 35mm
- Place made
- Central Africa: Rwanda, Kibeho
- Date made
- 1995
- Copyright holder
- Gittoes & Dalton Productions Pty Ltd
- Copying provision
- Copy provided for personal non-commercial use
- Copyright details
- Gittoes & Dalton Productions Pty Ltd, PO Box 2 Bundeena, NSW 2230, Australia
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Four Australian infantry soldiers, with a Rwandan mother and her child lying on a stretcher, wait for a helicopter to evacuate them from the Kibeho refugee camp, following the brutal massacre of over 2,000 unarmed civilians by the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA). The mother and child were among the large number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) who had gathered at the second United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR II) administered camp at Kibeho, that at one time held an estimated 120,000 people, fleeing the genocide of the civil war between Rwanda's two tribal groups, the Tutsi and Hutu. The soldiers are from left to right: Signaller Barry Quinn, Trooper Jon Church, Private Paul Price and Corporal Paul Jordan. The Australians are all members of the second Australian Service Contingent (ASC2) serving in UNAMIR II. (Reproductions only available for personal use, requests for commercial use or publication must be made to Gittoes & Dalton Productions Pty Ltd)
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