Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Martha Rial

A severely malnourished four-month-old baby boy rides on the back of his mother, who has just arrived in Tanzania. They were awaiting medical attention at a border station near Kibondo, Tanzania, after fleeing Burundi.

Brothers wait for a meal of roasted corn at the Mugunzu border station in Northern Tanzania. This will be the first meal for the Hutu family after leaving Burundi.

A Burundian Hutu woman, age 40, pulls aside her clothing to reveal the scars left after she was raped and stabbed by Tutsi soldiers almost three years ago. Her husband was abducted and killed and their home set on fire with their six children inside. Five died. She was pregnant and lost the baby. Unable to walk for some time, she finally fled to freedom in Tanzania. She has been living in the Kenebwa refugee camp since July 1996 and has received counseling.

Refugees prepare a grave in the children's burial area of the Mtendeli refugee camp for a young refugee girl who died from anemia brought on by malaria.

A Rwandan boy lies dying of anemia in a nearly empty ward at the Kibondo District Hospital in Tanzania.

Teenage Hutu girls at the Rwamagana orphanage. The older girls help care for the younger orphans.

Marthe Nyirabahinzi, a Tutsi, comforts her frightened adopted daughter Bitama. Although Nyirabahinzi's children are already grown and she has several grandchildren older than Bitama, she said she could find room in her heart for Bitama. It did not matter to her that Bitama's origins are unknown, and probably Hutu.

Bitama sits in silence while her classmates practice writing the Kinyarwanda alphabet in their elementary school classroom at the Mkugwa refugee camp. Bitama was so young at the time of her parent's death that there is little information about her origins. Having experienced so much loss at such a young age, she is often silent and expressionless.