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Description of Pictures: The International Committee of the Red Cross sent five award-winning photojournalists to eight war-torn and ravaged countries to document how war and armed violence have affected people’s lives. The result of their work is featured in the new exhibit "Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines." The exhibit of 40 photos will be on display at the Newseum until Sept. 7, 2009.

The photographers whose work is exhibited are:
• Ron Haviv, who has used his photography to expose human rights violations in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and the Balkans. He has documented wars in Darfur and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has published two acclaimed books of photos: "Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal" and "Afghanistan: One the Road to Kabul."
• Antonin Kratochvil, whose perspective as a former child refugee in his native Czechoslovakia is reflected in his images. He has photographed street children in Mongolia, covered the war in Iraq and produced a photo study of clashes between the Department of Homeland Security and American civil liberties in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
• Christopher Morris, who has spent much of the past 20 years focused on war, having documented more than 18 foreign conflicts, including the U.S. invasions of Panama and Iraq, the Persian Gulf War, the drug war in Colombia and the wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia and Yugoslavia. Most recently, he documented the presidency of George W. Bush for Time magazine.
• James Nachtwey, who has documented wars, conflicts and critical social issues since his first foreign assignment covering civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981. Since then, Nachtwey has covered war and upheaval in Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, the Philippines, Rwanda, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand and the United States.
• Franco Pagetti, who is drawn to the way conflict shows society and people at their best and worst. He has covered crises in Afghanistan, Kosovo, East Timor, Kashmir, Palestine, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. He began covering the conflict in Iraq in January 2003, three months before the war began. Since then, he has been based primarily in Baghdad, mainly on assignment for Time magazine.
The exhibit, created by the ICRC and VII Photo Agency, is part of a global campaign to raise awareness of humanitarian challenges and to mark the 150th anniversary of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

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1. NEWWAW_090808_001.JPG: Our World at War: Photojournalism Behind the Front Lines: War's destruction doesn't disappear with the end of conflict. When the battles are over and the weapons fall silent, journalists continue to document how people who live in countries ravaged by conflict cope with the consequences of death, disease, and displacement. The five award winning photojournalists whose work is exhibited here are among the most famous war photographers in the world. They were sent to eight countries by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to document how war and armed violence have affected people's lives. On display are 40 photos from Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia and the Philippines. From the loneliness of an elderly woman made homeless by war to the joy of two brothers reunited after being separated by fighting, these photographs show both despair and dignity. "Whatever else one might see or feel when looking at a picture of human suffering -- outrage, sadness, disbelief -- what I think is essential to take away from such an image is a sense of compassion," said photojournalist James Nachtwey, who traveled to Afghanistan and the Philippines for this project. This photography exhibit, created by the ICRC and VII Photo Agency, is part of a global campaign to raise awareness of humanitarian challenges and to mark the 150th anniversary of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
2. NEWWAW_090808_010.JPG: Messages of Hope: Local radio stations broadcast lists compiled by the ICRC of children who have been separated from their families. Safi Nira Nzabimana is the mother of three pairs of twins. In October 2008, her village was attacked by armed men, and her four oldest children went missing. Two months alter, she and her husband learned through a radio broadcast that their children were at a center for unaccompanied children in Goma. The family was reunited on Jan. 8, 2009.
3. NEWWAW_090808_016.JPG: Democratic Republic of Congo: Photographs by Ron Haviv: The long and brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused massive suffering for civilians. An estimated 3 million people have died, either as a direct result of fighting or because of disease and malnutrition. In 2008, more than 1 million people were forced to leave their homes. Rape and sexual abuse are common. For many, the conflict in the Congo is one of the worst emergencies to unfold in Africa in recent decades. Photographer Ron Haviv documented the terrible price paid by civilians caught in the crossfire.
4. NEWWAW_090808_025.JPG: A Sympathetic Ear: A counselor, Sifa Muhima (right), listens to a rape victim at an ICRC-supported maison d'ecoute, or listening house. There is no sign outside the modest little house covered in plastic sheeting, but those in need know how to find the listening house where victims are given immediate medical care and support. Sexual violence in armed conflict, long underestimated, has only recently been acknowledged to be a widespread phenomenon.
5. NEWWAW_090808_032.JPG: Helping Others: Mama Louise's village was attacked by armed men in February 2008. After killing her husband in her presence, they raped her. Her 81-year-old mother and three young daughters also were raped. Two of the girls became pregnant. Louise spent 21 years in a coma and three months in a safe house, where female counselors helped her get medical care, listened to her and offered emotional support. Today, besides caring for her grandchildren, she provides the same kind of counseling to other rape victims.
6. NEWWAW_090808_040.JPG: Waiting for News: Ozias is 11 years old. Here, at a temporary resting place, he is wondering whether his parents are still alive. He would soon be reunited with his family through the efforts of the ICRC. Families are often torn apart when people flee their homes. With each new conflict in the Congo, the number of orphaned or unaccompanied children increases. A Red Cross worker explains: "In the current war, women are raped, children separated from their families and fathers die. The children are left homeless and live like vagrants."
7. NEWWAW_090808_048.JPG: Together Again: Roger Bimael is a 17-year-old who was separated from his family and given up for dead by his mother. He was reunited with his family by the ICRC.
8. NEWWAW_090808_057.JPG: Philippines: Photographs by James Nachtwey: On the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines, government forces have been fighting the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for decades. The conflict has claimed thousands of lives. Despite a 2003 cease-fire, violence erupted in August 2008, forcing more than 250,000 civilians to flee their homes. Photographer James Nachtwey documented the impact of this largely forgotten conflict.
9. NEWWAW_090808_064.JPG: Prisoners' Welfare: Inmates sleep on the floor of the church at the Manila City Jail. Delegates from the ICRC visit more than 60,000 detainees throughout the Philippines to assess conditions, paying special attention to the needs of women and minors.
10. NEWWAW_090808_071.JPG: So Near and Yet So Far: A 79-year-old woman and her grandson stand in front of the home she was forced to flee in August 2008. Like many displaced persons in Mindanao, she is too frightened to return home permanently and has been living for months in a tarpaulin-covered shelter just a few miles from her abandoned village.
11. NEWWAW_090808_079.JPG: Temporary Home: On the island of Mindanao, a child plays in front of his family's temporary home in an evacuation center. While some families were able to find shelter in schools and public buildings, others are living more precariously, sometimes sleeping on nothing more than sections of cardboard.
12. NEWWAW_090808_087.JPG: One More Tragedy: This young man -- just 24 -- is in the last stage of pulmonary tuberculosis. The doctor on duty says that he is already beyond help, like many other gravely ill displaced persons who have been forced to flee their homes by the fighting. The patient was given an IV drip and a chest tube in the emergency room and transferred upstairs to the TB ward. He died less than 48 hours later.
13. NEWWAW_090808_095.JPG: The Road To Relief: On the island of Mindanao, two men cross a frequently flooded section of road carrying much-needed food supplies for which they had waited for hours in blistering heat. After heavy rain, this dirt road to an evacuation center can become virtually impassable, isolating desperately needy civilians. The ICRC provides rice, cooking oil, soap and tarpaulin sheets to thousands of people displaced by the fighting.
14. NEWWAW_090808_104.JPG: Lebanon: Photographs by Franco Pagetti: In August 2006, Israel launched a 34-day military campaign against the Lebanon-based armed group Hezbollah. Thousands of people were displaced and damage to infrastructure was widespread. Many people still face the threat of injury and death from thousands of unexploded cluster submunitions nearly three years after the end of the war. Violence also has beset some Palestinian camps in the country, killing and injuring hundreds. Photographer Franco Pagetti witnessed the consequences of the conflict.
15. NEWWAW_090808_109.JPG: Destruction and Flight: Nahr el-Bared is a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon where, for almost four months in 2007, the Lebanese army battled an armed group called Fatah al-Islam. Much of the camp was reduced to rubble, and most of its 40,000 inhabitants fled to an adjacent camp or elsewhere in Lebanon. They lived for months in conditions that were often precarious. For the oldest among these Palestinian refugees, it was the second or third time they had been displaced.
16. NEWWAW_090808_117.JPG: Life on the Front Line: In Tripoli, tensions between political factions find expression on the street, partly because of the high rates of unemployment, crime and drug addiction in these impoverished neighborhoods. Syria Street, on which this house stands, is practically the front line of this urban war.
17. NEWWAW_090808_124.JPG: Loss Upon Loss: Almost two years ago, when fighting broke out between the Lebanese army and Muslim militias in the Nahr el-Bared camp, Hasniyye Yehia Tawiyyeh was forced to flee her home. Today, she lives in the nearby Beddawi camp. Her husband was hospitalized after their flight. A week later, he died in her arms while she was helping him up the seven flights of stairs to their small apartment. Her son was later killed during a peaceful protest against the fighting. "I have been through many things," she says. "But all the hardship I've been through, I could put it in one hand. The death of my son, I would put it in the other hand and it would weigh much more than all the other suffering I have endured."
18. NEWWAW_090808_134.JPG: War In The City: The conflict in Tripoli pits militias, sects and neighborhoods against one another. It is a complex conflict whose origins go back to the civil war in Lebanon. The latest round of fighting began in early May 2008 and peaked in July and August.
19. NEWWAW_090808_144.JPG: Bread and Bombs: During the war with Israel in 2006, almost all the bakeries in Tyre were shut. This bakery in Rashidiyeh and another nearby were left the task of feeding the city's entire population. Bread is a staple food in Lebanon. Volunteers worked in two shifts, 18 hours a day. The flour had to be trucked in from a distance during lulls in the fighting under dangerous conditions. With fuel and flour provided in part by the ICRC, the Rashidiyeh bakery was able to produce up to four tons of bread a day, enough for 100,000 people.
20. NEWWAW_090808_160.JPG: Georgia: Photographs by Antonin Kratochvil: In August 2008, a conflict erupted between Georgian and Russian armed forces, causing wide-scale human suffering and destruction. Today the situation for the victims has improved, and relief assistance is focusing on chronic humanitarian problems. While the media spotlight has been on South Ossetia, families displaced by the Abkhazia conflict of 1992-1993 continue to endure harsh conditions with little hope of ever going home. Photographer Antonin Kratochvil documented the harsh lives of the survivors.
21. NEWWAW_090808_163.JPG: Uprooted and Forgotten: Vasilii Zigibarts is one of the 250,000 Georgians who fled Abkhazia during the conflict 16 years ago. Since then, he had lived in this bare room in a collection center for the displaced in Zugdidi in western Georgia. The region bordering Abkhazia continues to struggle to absorb the large population of displaced persons, most of whom live in abject poverty.
22. NEWWAW_090808_171.JPG: Shelter: Twenty displaced families live in shabby single rooms in this garage, which has been converted into a collection center. The official rate of unemployment in Zugdidi is approximately 70 percent. Most people subsist on monthly public welfare payments of 22 lari ($10) and a diet of pulses (legumes) and pasta.
23. NEWWAW_090808_180.JPG: Still Displaced Years Later: The 20 families in this converted garage share one outdoor lavatory and draw water from a single tap. They fled Abkhazia 16 years ago during an earlier conflict and have largely been forgotten as authorities focus on housing the latest wave of displaced persons from Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia after the recent conflict there.
24. NEWWAW_090808_190.JPG: Helping Hands: In the period following the conflict in 2008, the ICRC has distributed food and household items to nearly 20,000 people in 27 Georgian villages closely bordering South Ossetia. Teams of villagers help to unload the provisions, which are distributed according to lists drawn up by local village committees to ensure that only the most vulnerable persons receive aid.
25. NEWWAW_090808_198.JPG: At Home But In Need: Most of those displaced by the conflict of 2008 have returned to their homes in the villages bordering South Ossetia. However, they remain vulnerable and in need of food and other essentials, such as warm clothes. The ICRC is providing them with assistance.
26. NEWWAW_090808_207.JPG: Liberia: Photographs by Christopher Morris: Since 2003, peace has returned to Liberia and the focus is on rebuilding the country after a savage 14-year civil war. But the emotional and physical scars of war remain. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Rape was commonplace. Children were abducted and forced to become fighters. Untold numbers were forced to flee their homes. Photographer Christopher Morris traveled to Liberia to photograph shattered lives and the effort to rehabilitate them.
27. NEWWAW_090808_211.JPG: A Lost Childhood: Mary, now 17 years old, was one of thousands of children whose lives were incalculably damaged by the civil war in her country. As is the case with almost every Liberian of her generation, her education was interrupted and her childhood snatched from here. She remembers the central event of her life: "I was on my father's back when we came across the fighters. They told him to take me off of his back. Then they killed him and my mother in front of me. After that they took me with them and raped me. I was 10 years old. Later, they let me go with my aunt, but only after she gave them money." Mary is now a student at a child rehabilitation center run by the Liberian Red Cross, which offers young people counseling, skills training, recreational activities and learning programs.
28. NEWWAW_090808_219.JPG: Dance of Death: Inside a Lutheran Church in Monrovia, Liberia's Trauma Healing and Reconciliation program is under way. At group sessions, women share their war experiences. Singing and dancing are used as means to come to terms with their painful past. One story that was told during a visit by the ICRC stands out for its brutality: "Rebels came to this woman's house. They made her stand in the middle of the room and ordered her to sing and clap and dance. Then they tortured and killed her husband. I cannot imagine how much he must have suffered. At the same time, they took turns to rape her daughter who was not quite 12 years old. Whenever she forced herself to look, she saw unspeakable things being done. All this while, of course, she was signing, clapping and dancing. When they had finished, they told her to find a bucket of water and clean the bloody knife. She was still singing, clapping and dancing when I found her in a camp for displaced persons."
29. NEWWAW_090808_230.JPG: I Could Not Help Them: The de facto leader of the woman's movement in Margibi County in Liberia is an unassuming 61-year-old woman known as Mrs. Slocum. A nurse who also serves as a midwife, she works full time in a family planning clinic in Kakata, the capital of the county. In her spare time, Mrs. Slocum, who had eight children, founded the Margibi Women Development Association. Mrs. Slocum carried on her work throughout the war despite being displaced so many times that she has lost count. Two of her daughters were killed. Despite her efforts to leave the past behind, many painful memories remain with her: "The walking and, literally, the falling and dying on the road is what affected me most. The children would just drop and die. From hunger and from exhaustion brought on by walking great distances. Some of them died on their mothers' backs. The mothers would call out to me, but I could not help them."
30. NEWWAW_090808_240.JPG: Football for Life: Amputee football has been the source of enormous hope and solace for one of the most marginalized groups in the country: young men, most of whom are victims of the war. That some of them fought in the war only adds to the stigmatization of the group. Paul A. Tolbert, senior coach of the national amputee football team, describes how the sport has helped them: "When you ask them how they felt after being amputated, most of them say that they wanted to kill themselves. Life no longer had meaning for them. Amputee football restores their hope. Take the guy who was named the most valuable player in the recent African Cup for amputee football. He was a very good player, but he lost hope when his leg was amputated. When I went to recruit him. I told him, 'You can make it. There is still a chance for you.' He has gained hope and, what's more, now knows that what he could not do, win a war when he had two legs, he is now doing on one leg."
31. NEWWAW_090808_248.JPG: Toward Self-Sufficiency: A young girl from Kakata leans on the wall of a tailor shop created by the Margibi Women Development Association. The association was supported by the ICRC for several years. The ICRC provided vital support during the long Liberian civil war and continues to do so in post-conflict Liberia.
32. NEWWAW_090808_256.JPG: Colombia: Photographs by Franco Pagetti: After 45 years of conflict, hardly anyone in Colombia has been spared by the violence. In 2008, thousands of families in rural areas had to leave their homes and try to rebuild their lives elsewhere, often in city slums. Many have been threatened with death or forced recruitment into armed groups. Recently, the fighting between government forces and insurgent groups has particularly affected indigenous communities and people of African descent. Photographer Franco Pagetti chronicles the impact of the long conflict on Colombians.
33. NEWWAW_090808_260.JPG: The Solitude of War: Julia Ruth lives in a poor neighborhood of the Apartado municipality in Antioquia state. Few Colombians have been spared the consequences of the long conflict there. Julia, 60, is no exception: She has lost two sons to it. She spends her days alone and, following a traffic accident, confined to a wheelchair.
34. NEWWAW_090808_268.JPG: Displacement: Internally displaced persons are ordinary people who have been made homeless by war or armed conflict. They are forced to find shelter wherever they can -- by clearing forests in rural areas or crowding into urban slums. By the end of 2008, more than 2.5 million displaced persons have been registered by Colombians national authorities. More than half of them were women and children. Their true number is probably much higher.
35. NEWWAW_090808_277.JPG: Carrying On: In October 2008, Maria Elena was caught in the crossfire between government forces and armed factions. She was hit in the left arm while breast-feeding her daughter and lost so much blood that she barely survived. Her arm had to be amputated. Nevertheless, she continues to help support her family.
36. NEWWAW_090808_282.JPG: Strayed Into a Minefield: In 2009, 20-year-old Francisco and a friend unknowingly strayed into a minefield. Francisco's right foot was blown off, and his friend was permanently blinded. Francisco is now in the University Hospital of Pasto in central Colombia. Anti-personnel land mines and leftover unexploded ordnance still do great damage in many rural communities in Colombia. It is impossible to farm land contaminated by these weapons. People are forced to leave their homes and are unable to return.
37. NEWWAW_090808_291.JPG: Behind Bars: A section of this women's prison, El Buen Pastor in Bogota, is occupied by 75 women with their babies and small children. The women are being held because of their alleged links to rebel groups and crimes they allegedly committed. One of them reaches out to adjust the antenna of a rudimentary radio, seeking connection to the outside world.
38. NEWWAW_090808_301.JPG: Afghanistan: Photographs by James Nachtwey: Afghanistan has suffered from conflict and violence for three decades. Its economy and infrastructure are fragile, and many of its people are displaced. Today, fighting between armed groups with international forces is intensifying with mounting civilian casualties. Families struggle to survive as natural disasters compound their hardships, and with jobs scarce, subsistence farming is often the only thing that prevents starvation. Photographer James Nachtwey witnessed the damage done.
39. NEWWAW_090808_305.JPG: Disablement: The life of a paraplegic with spinal-cord injuries is extremely difficult, but even more so in Afghanistan. Relatives play an important role in the care and rehabilitation of patients. This photograph shows patients at the ICRC's orthopedic center in Kabul exercising with calipers with help from their relatives. Training patients and their relatives to cope with the challenges before them takes a minimum of two months.
40. NEWWAW_090808_313.JPG: At the Marastoon: Women in Afghanistan have hard lives. For those who are ill or have mental problems, things are far worse. The 16-year-old in the photograph was abandoned by her parents when she was 10 years old and left to roam the streets of Kabul. The police picked her up and brought her to the marastoon, or house of refuge, run by the Afghan Red Crescent Society. She does not talk to anyone. But she shouts and waves her arms when she is happy. When she is sad, she sits apart, silent and inscrutable. She has been at the marastoon for six years. She has no visitors and the staff knows nothing about her. They call her "Gul ma" -- "our flower." "Many of the women here have no notion of time," explains Nazuba, a nurse who works in the women's compound. "They just live from one second to the next." The women's compound is bright and clean. It has a garden and a wide terrace with a view of Kabul and the mountains beyond. The women will probably spend the rest of their lives there.
41. NEWWAW_090808_320.JPG: One Step at a Time: In the gait training room at the ICRC's orthopedic enter in Kabul, Alberto Cairo, the head of the ICRC's orthopedic program in Afghanistan, works with a mine victim, a double amputee who has just received his two prostheses. An amputee has to learn to walk again and must be helped to stand and walk correctly from the beginning of the process.
42. NEWWAW_090808_330.JPG: Indiscriminate Weapons: Land mines have been used indiscriminately in Afghanistan for the past three decades. Hundreds of thousands lie unmapped and undiscovered. Land mines have left an estimate 100,000 or more Afghan people disabled.
43. NEWWAW_090808_339.JPG: Human Dignity: This man is a detainee held by the Afghan authorities. An ICRC interpreter said of him: "Sometimes, I ask myself: 'In a situation like theirs, would I have done as well?' How they managed to preserve their dignity: This is the astonishing thing to me."
44. NEWWAW_090808_347.JPG: Haiti Photographs by Ron Haviv Poverty, deforestation, violence and instability have turned Haiti into the poorest nation in the Americas. While stabilization efforts have helped to reduce the violence, particularly in overcrowded urban areas, the collapse of the economy and chronic poverty mean that Haiti faces an uncertain future. Photographer Ron Haviv chronicled the pain and promise of the survivors.
45. NEWWAW_090808_351.JPG: A Family Man: Trapped in a shootout between UN peacekeepers and armed gangs in April 2005, Brice Osmer was shot three times and lost an arm. He still works, selling mobile phone vouchers and bags of water on the streets of Port-au-Prince. "On a good day," he says, "I earn a dollar. But it is thanks to my wife who sells food from dawn to dusk that my children don't starve."
46. NEWWAW_090808_359.JPG: Caught in the Crossfire: A longtime resident of the sprawling shantytown called Cite Soleil, 83-year-old Elevanise Tidor first found herself in the midst of gang warfare in 1993. In 2004, she was shot in the chest and the stomach. In her corrugated-iron shack, she spends most of her time worrying how her children and grandchildren are going to manage. "My body took the brunt of the bullets," she says. "But my family has been hit the hardest. I can't work or do anything for them. My grandchildren often go to bed crying and hungry."
47. NEWWAW_090808_369.JPG: Only Mud To Eat: Cite Soleil might be a less violent place today, but it is just as impoverished as before. Most people have to manage on the equivalent of less than a dollar a day. They struggle to pay for food and water, and many of them are forced to eat mud cakes mixed with butter and salt to quell their hunger.
48. NEWWAW_090808_378.JPG: Aftermath: Gonaives and the surrounding towns were devastated by four consecutive tropical storms in August and September 2008. About 800 people were killed and approximately 100,000 homes suffered damage or destruction. Nine months later, many of those who lost their homes are still living in shelters or in tented camps such as this one in Montrouis. The Haitian Red Cross has provided tents and maintains the water pump, but food aid ran out in October, and the families labor at a local restaurant in return for leftover food.
49. NEWWAW_090808_388.JPG: Suffering Without End: Roudeline Lamy and her daughter sleep on slabs of concrete in a shack that is flooded every time it rains. In 2006, Roudeline was shot in the stomach during a gun battle between rival armed gangs in Cite Soleil. Her 3-month-old baby, whom she was carrying, fell out of her arms and onto the ground. Roudeline still suffers stomach pains, and her daughter, now 3 years old, is paralyzed from the waist down. Because her husband was killed by the gangs, Roudeline and her daughter are forced to rely on the charity of friends. While most of the gang leaders from Cite Soleil are now behind bars, the inhabitants of the shantytown continue to be ground down by poverty, and the psychological wounds caused by the violence have yet to heal.
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2009 photos: Overnight trips this year: Niagara Falls, NY, New York City, Civil War Trust conferences in Gettysburg, PA and Springfield, IL, and my 4th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles, Yosemite, Death Valley, Kings Canyon, Joshua Tree, etc). Ego strokes: I had a picture of a Lincoln-Obama cupcake sculpture published in Civil War Times and WUSA-9, the local CBS affiliate, ran a quick piece on me. A picture that I took at the annual Abraham Lincoln Symposium appeared in the National Archives' "Prologue" magazine. I became a volunteer with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs. I've also got a Nikon D90 and a newer Fuji -- the S200EHX -- both of which are nice but I still prefer the flexibility of the Fuji. Number of photos taken this year: 417,000.
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