Caught in the Crossfire - a Control Arms exhibition 
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Caught in the Crossfire - South Sudan
South Sudan: At a peace conference held at a purpose built village in the bush of Southern Sudan, Nuer and Dinka men pray for peace between their two tribes. © Tom Pilston, 1999.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Men injured by landmines learn how to walk using prosthetic legs at an orthopaedic centre. Jalalabad, Afghanistan. © Teun Voeten, 1996.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Lebanon
Lebanon: People walking around in the rubble of apartment buildings that were bombed by the Israeli Defence Force on Sunday August 13th, the day before the ceasefire. Haret Hreik neighbourhood, Beirut. © Teun Voeten/Panos Pictures, August 2006.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Lebanon
Lebanon: Fighters hosing the smouldering remains of buildings destroyed by the Israeli Defence Force, Beirut. © Teun Voeten/Panos Pictures, August 2006
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Caught in the Crossfire - Liberia
Liberia: Government child soldiers,Ganta; on the back of their truck is an anti-aircraft gun. © Teun Voeten, 2003.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Liberia
Liberia: Patience (18) (left), Annie (19) (centre), and Rhoda (right), 28, inside their looted home near Monrovia. The three sisters were raped by soldiers during a single attack on their home in July, 2003. © Lori Waselchuk, 2003
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Caught in the Crossfire - Nigeria
Nigeria: A woman stands in the ruins of her home in the central Nigerian town of Yelwa, where 630 corpses were buried after conflicts between Muslim and Christian militia. © REUTERS/George Esiri, May 6, 2004.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Nigeria
A Nigerian policeman surveys an empty main road following ethnic clashes in Lagos. More than 40 people died in two days of rioting, in 2002, between members of Nigeria's biggest tribes, the Hausas and Yorubas. © REUTERS/George Esiri
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Caught in the Crossfire - Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Children at a shelter in Freetown waiting to be reunited with their families. Some amputations were carried out by rebels, others were as a result of wounds. © Teun Voeten, 1999.
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Caught in the Crossfire - South Africa
South Africa: A policeman tries to control an angry group of tenants who have been evicted from their inner-city homes in Johannesburg. © Debbie Yazbek, 2002.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Sri Lanka / India
Sri Lankan Tamil refugees fleeing fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan Army in a boat approaching the Indian coast at Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu. © Prahant Panjiar, Livewire Images, 1985.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Nepal
Nepal: Maoist insurgents gather in Rukum district. © Ami Vitale, 2004
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Caught in the Crossfire - Uganda
Children sleep in the open at the bus park in Gulu. Fearing an attack or abduction by Lord’s Resistance Army, thousands of children trek each evening from outlying villages to the relative safety of the towns. © Alixandra Fazzina, June 2003
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Caught in the Crossfire - Brazil
Brazil: A child walks past as police officers head to a raid to enforce an arrest warrant in the slums of Ilha do Governador, Rio de Janeiro.© Severino Silva/AGÊNCIA O DIA/AE, April 2006.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Uganda
Uganda: As a thunderstorm throws down a blanket of rain, recruits at the Arrow Group militia training camp at Serere, Uganda, run through the trees for cover. © Alixandra Fazzina, June 2004.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Armenia/Azerbaijan
An Armenian fighter surveys a destroyed school on the Armenia/Azerbaijan border. Militia men on both sides of the conflict routinely attacked each others’ villages and towns in a border dispute. © Zed Nelson, 1993.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Angola
A boy climbs through a hole in the shell-damaged roof of the former Education Administration building in Kuito. © Guy Tillim, 2000.
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Caught in the Crossfire - Afghanistan
Afghanistan: On the road between Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul. © Guy Tillim, 1996
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Good question. Have you tried emailing student@amnesty.org.uk ?
Is there anyway I can get hold of some of these pictures to display on campus? More people need to see this and understand just how widespread the problems associated with arms are and how many innocent people get caught up in someone's else battle for power.
An amazing set of images.
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