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Pulitzer prize winner J. Ross Baughman 1978
Posted on January 01, 2011 in Feature Photography, Photography by admin
J. Ross Baughman of Associated Press for three photographs from guerrilla areas in Rhodesia.
Feature Photography 1978
Ross Baughman wears a military uniform and carries a rifle. He rides the Rhodesian back country on horseback. But he is not a soldier. He is a photographer for The Associated Press.
It is 1977. The white Rhodesian government is under intense pressure from the country’s disenfranchised black majority. Baughman travels with a rugged cavalry unit. Grey’s Scouts. Their mission: to seek out anti-government guerrillas and destroy them.
The villagers will not give up the guerrillas. So the scouts resort to torture. “They force them to line up in push-up stance,” Baughman remembers. “They’re holding that position for 45 minutes in the sun. many of them starting to shake violently.”
The soldiers warn that the first man who falls will be taken away. “Eventually, the first guy fell. They took him around the back of the building, knocked him out and fired a shot into the air. They continued bringing men to the back of the building. The poor guy on the end started crying and going crazy and he finally broke and started talking. As it turns out. what he was saying wasn’t true, but the scouts were willing to use it as a lead.”
Remembers Baughman: “It had all the feeling of an eventual massacre. I was afraid that I might see entire villages murdered.”
Ref: pulitzer.org
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