Spring Arab on the border Libya-Tunisia


  • Photographer
    abel ruiz de leon trespando
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Freelancer
  • Date of Photograph
    2011
  • Technical Info
    Nikon D 700

001. Some Tunisian civilians approach the border in order to collaborate with their army for the management of the humanitarian crisis 002. A Tunisian soldier gives pieces of bread to a group of refugees. 003. A man protests by the situation of thousands of people living in the land between Libyan and Tunisian customs. 004. Several men overlap themselves hoping to cross the border towards the Tunisian side in order to escape from the war that is happening in Libya. 005. A man confronts the fence between Tunisia and Libya after passing by a dozen of other refugees personal properties lost in the tumults.

Story


Spring Arab on the border Libya-Tunisia.

Thousands of refugees – most of them are men - flee from the civil war in Libya trying to reach the Tunisian border to find peace. Hundreds of people at the customs are impatiently waiting to go to the refugee’s camp. The Tunisian army tries to control the humanitarian crisis. These refugees will have to pass their first nights improvising a fire under the stars with just a bottle of water and a blanket.


The international organizations and community will take days in giving their first aid.

001. Volunteers.Some Tunisian civilians approach the border in order to collaborate with their army for the management of the humanitarian crisis that affects the country, after the outbreak of the civil war in the Libya.

002. First aid. A Tunisian soldier raises a fence and gives foods to the refugees who crowd themselves at the other side of the border, hoping to accede to Tunisia and to protect themselves at the refugee’s camp that is a few kilometers away from the country limits.

003. No-man's land. A man protests by the situation of thousands of people living in the land between Libyan and Tunisian customs. They demand the arrival of food, water and the opening of the border for humanitarian reasons.

004.Massed. A refugee fights to cross the border before the Tunisian military control. Thousands of them are crowded next to a fence touching one of the highest level of the humanitarian tragedy.

005.Properties. A man confronts the fence between Tunisia and Libya after passing by a dozen of other refugees personal properties lost in the tumults, during the most difficult hours in the border.

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