{"id":2547,"date":"2012-09-07T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2014-12-23T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T06:31:36","slug":"dec-1996-bitama-7-cried-frequently-she-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/07\/dec-1996-bitama-7-cried-frequently-she-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears of refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\\\/thedigs\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/07\\\/dec-1996-bitama-7-cried-frequently-she-was\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:80752127}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 583px;\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-original-height=\"583\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 583px;\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-original-height=\"583\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/07\/dec-1996-bitama-7-cried-frequently-she-was\/attachment\/2548\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"796\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"579\"> <img data-attachment-id=\"2548\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9yh8601Gz1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"576,419\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IslBG&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9yh8601Gz1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=300%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9yh8601Gz1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=576%2C419&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9yh8601Gz1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?w=796&#038;h=579&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"796\" height=\"579\" data-original-width=\"796\" data-original-height=\"579\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 796px; height: 579px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em><strong>Dec. 1996:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Bitama, 7, cried frequently. She was only four when her parents were murdered in Rwanda. People believed she had witnessed their slaying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martharial.com\/\">Martha Rial<\/a> spent three weeks in Central Africa. She captured faces of the suffering \u2014 young and old, men and women, girls and boys. Martha Rial documented the plight of the displaced people, their journeys.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;For many people it<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0was a painful journey,\u201d she said recently.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her parents were murdered in Rwanda&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/07\/dec-1996-bitama-7-cried-frequently-she-was\/'>Look at the pictures<span class='screen-reader-text'>Tears of refugees<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[948],"tags":[975,965,980,1012,1250],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9yh8601Gz1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=576%2C419&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2544,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/07\/dec-1996-rwandan-hutu-refugees-move-along-a\/","url_meta":{"origin":2547,"position":0},"title":"Rwandan Hutu refugees move along a highway in Tanzania, 1996","date":"September 7, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"\"It was a very difficult photo to get...\"","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9xxlq7dwR1rr5swxo1_r4_1280.jpg?fit=720%2C492&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2550,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/07\/martha-rials-pulitzer-winning-album-trek-of-tears\/","url_meta":{"origin":2547,"position":1},"title":"Martha Rial&#8217;s Pulitzer-winning album \u201cTrek of Tears\u201d","date":"September 7, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"\"As a journalist, as a photojournalist, as an artist, you have to take a risk to make your best work...\"","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9yp6ip1lS1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=576%2C418&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8917,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2018\/06\/21\/jonny-gammage-couldnt-breathe\/","url_meta":{"origin":2547,"position":2},"title":"Jonny Gammage couldn&#8217;t breathe","date":"June 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"On Tuesday, an East Pittsburgh police officer killed an unarmed black teenager. 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