18 Most Iconic Press Photos From 90s That Wrote Our Present

Rwanda Massacre, 1994.

On April 6, 1994, a group of Hutus began slaughtering the Tutsis in the African country of Rwanda. The brutality ensued for 100 days with the genocide leaving 800,000 dead. The cruelty of it all was that the world allowed the slaughter to occur without any intervention.

Though there are various devastating images of the tragedy, this one taken by Annie Leibovitz is one of the most haunting as it shows the bloody feet of children attempting to escape the slaughter by climbing the walls.