Ron Haviv’s Bosnian War Images As Evidence in War Trials

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Photography in the Docket, as Evidence

Ron Haviv hoped images of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia in 1992 would stop the killings. They did not, but were recently used as evidence against commanders charged in the genocide.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/photography-in-the-docket-as-evidence/

On a cool spring day at the beginning of the Bosnian war in 1992, Ron Haviv watched Serbian paramilitary soldiers pull a middle-aged Muslim couple from their home in Bijeljina. Shots rang out, and although members of the Arkan Tigers militia had warned him not to take photographs, Mr. Haviv stepped behind a truck and squeezed off a few frames.