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Title: Injured soldiers belonging to the Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) wait to be evacuated
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, War--Angola--Relief of sick and wounded, Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--Angola,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) recruits, injured in battle, wait, hoping to be evacuated from the frontline. Their chances were slim. The FAA was hesistant to expose their helicopters to União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) who were armed with stinger missiles.
Identifier: islandora:7071

Title: Victim of attack
Subject: AfghanisExtremists--Afghanistan, Wounds and injuries, Civilian war casualties--Afghanistan, Transport, Afghans
Description: Men commandeer a taxi to pick up the victims of a Taliban rocket attack.
Identifier: islandora:8329

Title: Victim of attack
Subject: injury, wounded, AfghanisWounds and injuries, Extremists--Afghanistan, Civilian war casualties--Afghanistan, Afghans
Description: Men carry a man wounded in a Taliban rocket attack.
Identifier: islandora:8326

Title: Whip marks from vigilante attack, Welkom township, 1985
Subject: Vigilantes, Political violence, Youth--Wounds and injuries, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A Thabong youth shows the whip marks left by vigilantes in Welkom township, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Gangs of vigilantes, very often supported by police, terrorised residents and anti-apartheid activists.
Identifier: islandora:893

Title: Young herdsman who was tortured for information
Subject: Atrocities, Torture, Herders--Namibia, Disfigured persons, Face--Wounds and injuries, Burns and scalds
Description: Young herdsman who was tortured for information through the infliction of exhaust pipe burns from a Buffel armoured personnel carrier.
Identifier: islandora:6802

Title: Discussion amongst Portuguese-speaking members of Koevoet
Subject: Amputees, People with disabilities, Wounds and injuries
Description: Off-duty Portuguese-speaking members of Koevoet discuss wounds, war and an uncertain future. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).
Identifier: islandora:6821

Title: Wounded Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) troops at a field hospital in Huambo Province, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, War--Angola--Relief of sick and wounded, Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--Angola,
Description: Wounded Forças Armadas Angolan (FAA) troops wait at a field hospital in the Huambo Province of Angola seeking medicine and food. A seriously hurt soldier bleeds to death.
Identifier: islandora:7076

Title: Vigilantes raid squatter camp
Subject: fire, destruction, injury, squatter camps, townshipsSquatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Face--Wounds and injuries, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: An injured man watches as informal settlement shacks burn during violence in the KTC / Crossroads township area.
Identifier: islandora:8364

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