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...third time in four years, becoming the second person in the history of the award (after the late Larry Burrows of LIFE) to do so. Nachtwey's picture stories included a series done jointly for TIME and West Germany's GEO on the Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka, and coverage for TIME of the Philippines and the mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan. In addition, Nachtwey was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association-University of Missouri School of Journalism...
This year's Capa award seemed especially ironic to Nachtwey, since the presentation came the day after the bombing of the Colombo bus station. Says he: "The recent news from Sri Lanka has underlined for me a sense of futility about effecting some kind of positive change in the world. But I believe journalists have to keep trying to shed some light on troubled areas...
...incident was a terrifyingly familiar episode in Sri Lanka's bloody four- year-old civil war -- except for its gruesome magnitude. Last week separatist Tamil rebels, who are fighting for an independent homeland in Northern and Eastern provinces, waylaid six vehicles with mostly Sinhalese holidaymakers returning home from celebrating the Sri Lankan New Year. The rebels dragged passengers, including women and children, from the buses and trucks, then mowed them down with machine-gun fire. When the shooting stopped, at least 126 travelers lay dead on the jungle roadside. The violence prompted the government to terminate a cease-fire with...
...blast was the first in Colombo since a series of fatal bombings last May that were blamed on Tamil guerrillas. Attacks by Tamil insurgents killed at least 142 people in eastern Sri Lanka in the past week...
Tamils, most of whom are Hindus, account for 18 percent of the 16 million people on Sri Lanka, an island off the southern coast of India. They claim they are discriminated against by the majority Sinhalese, who are Buddhists...