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Bulengo camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Lat: -1.622 / Long: 29.126 )

Marianne and her father in Bulengo.

We will call her Marianne. She is a beautiful six year old girl, wearing a dark blue dress and pink rubber shoes. She sits beside her father while we talk with him about what happened to her last month, before their family fled here to Bulengo camp a few miles east of the fighting on the front line. Marianne sits with her hands in her lap, and doesn’t say a word.

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Posted By: Michael Graham | December 02, 2007 | Comments (2)

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World is Witness, a new “geoblog” from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiatives, in partnership with Google Earth, documents and maps genocide and related crimes against humanity. The initial entries are from a Museum visit to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to learn about the legacies of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, and the most recent entries are from a Museum visit to South Sudan and a return visit to the Congo. Visit us again soon for more posts from the field.

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