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World Press Photo of the Year: 1997

>Hocine, Algeria, Agence France-Presse.

Algiers, Algeria, 23 September 1997.
A woman cries outside the Zmirli Hospital, where the dead and wounded had been taken after a massacre in Bentalha.

 

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Following the wounded to the nearest hospital, Hocine describes an apocalyptic scene of screaming women. One stood out. She was sliding down the wall, as if to faint, and his only concern was to document the pain of Algerian mothers after the massacres they'd just survived.

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