newsflick: No one asked their names | By Qais Azimy AJE In the days following the rogue US soldier’s shooting spree in Kandahar, most of the media, us included, focused on the “backlash” and how it might further strain the relations with the US. Many mainstream media outlets channelled a significant amount of  energy into uncovering the slightest detail about the accused soldier – now identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. We even know where his wife wanted to go for vacation, or what she said on her personal blog. But the victims became a footnote, an anonymous footnote. Just the number 16. No one bothered to ask their ages, their hobbies, their aspirations. Worst of all, no one bothered to ask their names. In honoring their memory, I write their names below, and the little we know about them: that nine of them were children, three were women. The dead: Mohamed Dawood son of  Abdullah Khudaydad son of Mohamed Juma Nazar Mohamed  Payendo Robeena Shatarina daughter of Sultan Mohamed Zahra daughter of Abdul Hamid Nazia daughter of Dost Mohamed Masooma daughter of Mohamed Wazir  Farida daughter of Mohamed Wazir Palwasha daughter of Mohamed Wazir Nabia daughter of Mohamed Wazir Esmatullah daughter of Mohamed Wazir Faizullah son of Mohamed Wazir Essa Mohamed son of Mohamed Hussain Akhtar Mohamed son of Murrad Ali  The wounded: Haji Mohamed Naim son of Haji Sakhawat Mohamed Sediq son of Mohamed Naim Parween Rafiullah Zardana Zulheja
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No one asked their names | By Qais Azimy AJE

In the days following the rogue US soldier’s shooting spree in Kandahar, most of the media, us included, focused on the “backlash” and how it might further strain the relations with the US.

Many mainstream media outlets channelled a significant amount of  energy into uncovering the slightest detail about the accused soldier – now identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. We even know where his wife wanted to go for vacation, or what she said on her personal blog.

But the victims became a footnote, an anonymous footnote. Just the number 16. No one bothered to ask their ages, their hobbies, their aspirations. Worst of all, no one bothered to ask their names.

In honoring their memory, I write their names below, and the little we know about them: that nine of them were children, three were women.

The dead:

  • Mohamed Dawood son of  Abdullah
  • Khudaydad son of Mohamed Juma
  • Nazar Mohamed 
  • Payendo
  • Robeena
  • Shatarina daughter of Sultan Mohamed
  • Zahra daughter of Abdul Hamid
  • Nazia daughter of Dost Mohamed
  • Masooma daughter of Mohamed Wazir 
  • Farida daughter of Mohamed Wazir
  • Palwasha daughter of Mohamed Wazir
  • Nabia daughter of Mohamed Wazir
  • Esmatullah daughter of Mohamed Wazir
  • Faizullah son of Mohamed Wazir
  • Essa Mohamed son of Mohamed Hussain
  • Akhtar Mohamed son of Murrad Ali 

The wounded:

  • Haji Mohamed Naim son of Haji Sakhawat
  • Mohamed Sediq son of Mohamed Naim
  • Parween
  • Rafiullah
  • Zardana
  • Zulheja

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Reuters’ Iconic Images of the Iraq War

Nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and with the U.S. military officially ending its war in Iraq, we take a look back at how Reuters photographers covered the conflict and captured defining images of the war. The mission cost nearly 4,500 American and well more than 100,000 Iraqi lives. The question of whether it was worth it all is yet unanswered.

(Previously on Fotojournalismus: Getty Images’ Most Memorable Photos From The Iraq War)

Photos : 

#1 : Alicia Casilio, dressed as an Iraqi civilian, stands silently at an anti-Iraq war protest in Boston, Massachusetts January 11, 2007. The numbers on Casilio’s face represent the estimated number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

#2 : An aerial view of the village of Kahtaniya, one of two villages struck by garbage trucks packed with explosives, west of Mosul, northwest of Baghdad August 16, 2007. Angry members of a minority sect said they feared annihilation and pleaded for help, after suicide attackers killed scores in possibly the worst such bomb attack of the Iraq conflict. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)

#3 : An Iraqi baby lies in a cradle while a woman argues with U.S. soldiers of 1/8 Bravo Company searching for weapons, explosives and information about militants in the area during a foot patrol in a neighborhood of Mosul June 26, 2008. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

#4 : A resident gestures as he talks to a U.S. soldier from 2nd Brigade combat team, 82nd Airborne on patrol in Baghdad’s Adhamiya district January 5, 2008. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)

#5 : An Iraqi man sits against a mural based on the scandal of prisoners abuse in the prison of Abu Ghraib in the Shi’ites suburb of Sadr city in Baghdad May 27, 2004. (Ali Jasim/Reuters)

#6 : An Iraqi girl holds her hands up while U.S. and Iraqi soldiers search her family house in Baquba early June 30, 2007. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

#7 : An Iraqi man suspected of having explosives in his car is held after being arrested by the U.S army near Baquba, Iraq, October 15, 2005. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

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Members of the audience look on as Republican presidential candidates participate in the debate in Sioux City, Iowa, on Dec. 15, 2011. [Credit : Jim Young / Reuters]
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Members of the audience look on as Republican presidential candidates participate in the debate in Sioux City, Iowa, on Dec. 15, 2011.

[Credit : Jim Young / Reuters]

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A Pakistani civil society activist sets fire to an effigy representing NATO during a protest against cross-border NATO air strikes on Pakistani troops, in Lahore on December 15, 2011. Pakistan angrily criticised US moves to freeze $700 million in aid, the latest sign of the fraying alliance that has been in deep crisis since NATO fire killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. [Credit : Arif Ali/AFP/Getty]
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A Pakistani civil society activist sets fire to an effigy representing NATO during a protest against cross-border NATO air strikes on Pakistani troops, in Lahore on December 15, 2011. Pakistan angrily criticised US moves to freeze $700 million in aid, the latest sign of the fraying alliance that has been in deep crisis since NATO fire killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

[Credit : Arif Ali/AFP/Getty]

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Kenya’s Samburu people “violently” evicted after US charities buy land

(via Guardian)

Around 2,000 Samburu families have stayed squatting on edge of disputed territory, says NGO Survival International. Members of the Samburu people in Kenya have been abused, beaten and raped by police after the land they lived on for two decades was sold to two US-based wildlife charities, a rights group and community leader have alleged.

With nowhere to go, around 2,000 Samburu families stayed on the edge of the disputed territory, living in makeshift squats, while 1,000 others were forced to relocate, Survival said.

The London-based NGO Survival International said the Samburu were evicted following the purchase of the land by two American-based charities, the Nature Conservancy and the African Wildlife Foundation. [more]

Photos :

#1 : The Samburu can be found on the semi-arid northern plains of Kenya. (Federica Miglio/Survival International)

#2 :  The word ‘Samburu’ means ‘butterfly’ in the language of Masai. They are so named for their striking traditional clothes, colorful beaded necklaces, earrings and bracelets. (Zhao Yingquan/Xinhua)

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An Iranian student holds up an anti-U.S. poster as he attends a demonstration to show his support for Iran’s nuclear program, before a ceremony to form a human chain around the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF), in Isfahan, 450 km (280 miles) south of Tehran, November 15, 2011. [Credit : Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters]
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An Iranian student holds up an anti-U.S. poster as he attends a demonstration to show his support for Iran’s nuclear program, before a ceremony to form a human chain around the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF), in Isfahan, 450 km (280 miles) south of Tehran, November 15, 2011.

[Credit : Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters]

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October 8, 2011. In London’s Trafalgar Square black balloons are released during an antiwar demonstration marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the Afghanistan war.[Credit : PA Photos/Landov]
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October 8, 2011. In London’s Trafalgar Square black balloons are released during an antiwar demonstration marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the Afghanistan war.

[Credit : PA Photos/Landov]

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