The guilty one Accession Number: ART90436

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Australian UN soldiers escort a woman and her child away from a dangerous confrontation with Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) soldiers. The RPA insisted she was guilty of supporting the Hutu militias and blocked her from leaving the Kibeho refugee camp. Two days earlier 4,000 people had been massacred in the camp and the woman remained in immense danger.

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Accession Number
ART90436
Artist
George Noel Gittoes AM
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pencil on paper
Measurement
Overall: 43 cm x 35.6 cm
Medium
pencil on paper
Date Made
24-25 April 1995
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Purchased 1996
Copyright
AWM Licensed copyright

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