In this Thursday, January 31, 1995 file photo, a Chechen looks towards a Russian checkpoint as he stands in front of the wreckage of a Russian armored personnel carrier that was destroyed in a clash with Chechen rebels and Russian troops at the west entrance of Samashki, a Chechen village 25 miles west of Grozny. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





Young refugees of Srebrenica protest against the U.N. in front of a Tuzla hotel, at night on Saturday, April 18, 1993 in Tuzla. About a hundred evacuated women and children staged a protest rally in Tuzla, as the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica was still under a siege. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





Chechens duck for cover as a Russian sniper takes a pot shot at a street market on the southern outskirts of Grozny, Chechnya on January 25, 1995. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





A French pilot carries an evacuated boy from Srebrenica to an ambulance at the Tuzla Airport, Sunday, April 25, 1993 in Tuzla. Britain said Saturday its planes would fire on Serbs if they attacked U.N. peacekeepers and Bosnia's Serb leader rejected a revised peace plan both signs that the West could be drawn deeper into Bosnia's war. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this Wednesday afternoon, April 28, 1993 file photo, a Bosnian soldier, ready to go to the frontline, wipes away the tears of his mother in front of a Muslim gravestone in Rhahic, a Bosnian town 43 miles north of Tuzla. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this Friday, September 27, 1991 file photo, making use of road signs, striking miners shield against tear gas and lead hunting pellets thrown by policemen during violent clashes outside the Presidential palace in Bucharest. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





Bosnian Croat soldiers pray close to catholic nun during a mass at Sarajevo's cathedral, Sunday, August 6, 1995, as the Bosnian capital remains quiet. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





A bus drives past as smoke rises from a building which had been repeatedly hit by tank shells in the southwest of Grozny, January 24, 1995. Fighting intensified accompanied by rocket and tank fire. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this February 3, 1995 file photo, a wounded Russian soldier, being evacuated with his comrades, look on, in a helicopter on his way out of Grozny, as the fighting in the Chechen capital continues. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this January 25, 1995 file photo, a Chechen sniper takes aim as a woman looks on after a Russian sniper took a pot shot at a street market on the southern outskirts of Grozny. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this Saturday July 29, 1995 file photo, a Sarajevan woman walks past French United Nations soldiers preparing new barricades at a U.N. compound in Sarajevo, on a relatively peaceful day in the beseiged Bosnian capital. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this Saturday, January 20, 1996 file photo, a Bosnian woman carries corn as a Bosnian soldier passes her in Lopare, a Bosnian former frontline village 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Tuzla. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this Friday, August 4, 1995 file photo, two women sit on the shattered balcony of their previously destroyed apartment in Sarajevo's outskirts during a quiet day in the Bosnian capital. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this Sunday, January 7 1996 file photo, a Bosnian farmer guides his horses passing the base of the U.S. Alpha advance team of the 3/4 Cav. in Staric, a Bosnian village 40 kilometers (24 miles) south of Tuzla, as the deployment of U.S. forces into Bosnia continues. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





A Chechen refugee couple leaves Grozny with their belongings packed in the sidecar of their motorbike, January 26, 1995, as Russian forces continue to advance on the Chechen capital. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





In this April 20, 1993 file photo refugees of Srebrenica, evacuated a day before by U.N. helicopter, walk with their crutches to a nearby hospital in Tuzla. Four-hundred-sixty-nine refugees have been evacuated in a two-day airlift by U.N. forces. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)





A wounded Russian soldier, who has been evacuated with his comrades, weeps in a helicopter on his way out of Grozny on Friday, February 3, 1995, as the fighting in the Chechen capital continues. The massive Russian force that invaded Chechnya has taken very heavy losses against a small but determined guerrilla force. (Photo by Karsten Thielker/AP Photo/File)