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First Place
Patrick Farrell
Miami Herald

"Deadly Season"

Second Place
Lars Lindqvist
Dagens Nyheter

"War in Georgia"

Third Place
Mohammed Abed
Agence France-Presse

"Palestinians Under Fire"

Award of Excellence
James Oatway
Sunday Times (South Africa)

"Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa"

Award of Excellence
Tariq Mahmood
Agence France-Presse

"Public Execution"

First Place
Patrick Farrell
Miami Herald

"Deadly season"

Haiti -- long ranked as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere -- saw its people buckle under the cruelty of a merciless hurricane season in 2008. Four consecutive storms slammed the island nation, leaving in their wake staggering death tolls and massive destruction to an already-frail way of life.
Sonson Pierre, 7, sits in knee deep mud outside his family's flooded Gonaives home in Haiti in the midst of a cruel 2008 Hurricane Season.
 
 

 

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