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Bird Song Valley Series The Wood and the Brook Branch in Brook Icy Edges and Water Blue Sunset Back to Jan Oberg’s Photography main page

2003 The capital Bujumbura 2006 The capital Bujumbura 2006 Gitega, the second largest town & its surroundings The Bujumbura-Gitega road Landscapes, people, the Plus Jamais Monument and a bride Ruyigi – Maggy’s “Maison Shalom” & the town 2007 Muramvia Bussuro – a poor suburb of Bujumbura Back to Oberg’s Photography main page

In August I went to South Korea, since I had been invited to participate in a conference on peace education by APCEIU and IIPE & the Korean National Commission for Unesco. I had been there in 1991 with Christina, my wife, and Matilda, our daughter who had been adopted as an abandoned child in South Korea and came to Sweden in 1976. During two free days – and occasionally sneaking out of the conference – I tried to breathe in the atmosphere in this dynamic and beautiful society whose history tells you about centuries of occupation and decades of division. I was very grateful to be given this chance to learn about South Korea and about this conflict – one of the world’s most locked and hard. To me, the wish for re-unification was as obvious as was the brutality and absurdity of the De-Militarised Zone, DMZ, i.e. the border area between the...

 Over 400 civilians were killed by U.S. missiles.Read more about this terrible event in 1991 here