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10/09/2026

A clip sourced from ABC News marking 30 years since the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana which sparked the outbreak of the Rwandan Genocide.

On 6 April 1994, the airplane carrying Rwandan President Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi, was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, killing everyone on board. Responsibility for the attack was disputed, with both the RPF and Hutu extremists being blamed.

Extremists spent the night of 6–7 April moving around the houses of Kigali with lists of prominent moderate politicians and journalists, on a mission to kill them. By noon on 7 April, the moderate political leadership of Rwanda was dead or in hiding, the potential for a future moderate government utterly lost.

Genocidal killings began the following day. Soldiers, police, and militia quickly executed key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders who could have assumed control in the ensuing power vacuum. Checkpoints and barricades were erected to screen all holders of the national ID card of Rwanda, which contained ethnic classifications. This enabled government forces to systematically identify and kill Tutsi.

2 AKs and 1 tea 📸 Dr. Stuart Griffiths “When I arrived in Baghdad, I realised that my letter of introduction was in fact...
09/09/2026

2 AKs and 1 tea 📸 Dr. Stuart Griffiths

“When I arrived in Baghdad, I realised that my letter of introduction was in fact out of date, much to the confinement of the US Marines checking everyones identity papers”

“Although my British passport proved more use in the end and I was placed in a place called ‘Camp Striker’ which was like some holding place once you arrived in Baghdad and after a couple of days, I was picked up by Jason McAleese’s son Jason”

“Jason had not talked to his father in years and was rather estranged from him, he was a decent enough chap and was the only person who let me photograph him, as all the private security were like some wannabe SAS types, who didn’t want there indents revealed.”

The man with the golden gun📸 Dr. Stuart Griffiths “I went to Iraq with no life insurance, as the minimum fee for out in ...
08/09/2026

The man with the golden gun📸 Dr. Stuart Griffiths

“I went to Iraq with no life insurance, as the minimum fee for out in Iraq was £140 a day, which a humble freelancer like I, could never afford”

“Also I had no magazine/newspaper commission (but everyone in that world who knew I was going was dead keen to see my results when back from Iraq) because no one wanted to be liable should I become beheaded by al-Qaeda”

“After my Iraq trip, I vowed never to do anything like this ever again, especially as my second child, my daughter, was born early that year of 2005.”

03/09/2026

Sourced from BBC News: Islamic State ‘are all monsters’ says 14 year old boy.

Over a period of three years, Islamic State militants trafficked thousands of Yazidi women and girls and killed thousands of Yazidi men. The United Nations reported that the Islamic State killed about 5,000 Yazidis and trafficked about 10,800 Yazidi women and girls in a “forced conversion campaign” throughout Iraq. By 2015, upwards of 71% of the global Yazidi population was displaced by the genocide, with most Yazidi refugees having fled to Iraq’s Kurdistan Region and Syria’s Rojava. The persecution of Yazidis, along with other religious minorities, took place after the Islamic State’s Northern Iraq offensive of June 2014.

Amid numerous atrocities committed by the Islamic State, the Yazidi genocide attracted international attention and prompted the United States to establish CJTF–OIR, a military coalition consisting of many Western countries and Turkey, Morocco, and Jordan. Additionally, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia made emergency airdrops to support Yazidi refugees who were trapped in the Sinjar Mountains due to the Islamic State’s Northern Iraq offensive of August 2014. During the Sinjar massacre, in which the Islamic State killed and abducted thousands of trapped Yazidis, the United States and the United Kingdom began carrying out airstrikes on the advancing Islamic State militants, while the People’s Defense Units and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party jointly formed a humanitarian corridor to evacuate the rest of the Yazidi refugees from the Sinjar Mountains.

The United Nations and several other organizations, including the Council of Europe and the European Union, have designated the anti-Yazidi campaign by the Islamic State as a genocide, as have the United States, Canada, Armenia, and Iraq.

Any viewers interested in learning more about the Yazidi Genocide can read about it in book Genocide from the link in our bio.

Dr. Stuart Griffiths in Paratripper, page 206:“My workload as a freelance photographer was the usual up and down, feast ...
31/08/2026

Dr. Stuart Griffiths in Paratripper, page 206:

“My workload as a freelance photographer was the usual up and down, feast or famine routine. GQ weren’t giving me lots of work, maybe one feature a year - I travelled to Poland to do a story on working in menial jobs in Krakow. I was accompanied by some upper-class writer who was a recovering alcoholic who wrote ghost stories and thought the world owed him a living. We didn’t get on that great. Then I went to Khartoum in Sudan with a Muslim female writer called Yvonne, and her filmmaker husband, to do a story on a pharmaceutical factory blown up by American missiles in 1998. But no media outlet would touch the story, not even Vice.”

27/08/2026

The 2017 report of the United Nations Secretary-General on conflict-related s*xual violence detailed the subjection of civilians to s*xual violence on a horrific scale primarily against women and girls from ethnic and religious minority groups.

According to declarations, 971 Yazidi women and girls have been freed while 1,882 remained enslaved in Iraq and Syria. The sale and trade of women and children, and the use of s*xually enslaved women as human shields by IS during the Mosul operations were reported.

On 3 November 2014, the “price list” for Yazidi and Christian females issued by IS surfaced online, and Dr. Widad Akrawi and her team were the first to verify the authenticity of the document. On 4 November 2014, a translated version of the document was shared by Akrawi and confirmed as genuine by a UN official in 2015

The Associated Press reported that IS tightened “its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as s*x slaves” even while it was losing territory to Iraqi forces. IS sold the women on encrypted smart phone apps, primarily on Telegram and on Facebook” and to a lesser degree on WhatsApp. In advertisements for the girls seen by AP, “many of the women and girls are dressed in finery, some in heavy makeup. All look directly at the camera, standing in front of overstuffed chairs or brocade curtains in what resembles a shabby hotel ballroom. Some are barely out of elementary school. Not one looks older than 30. In the documentary “Daughters of the Sun,” Yazidi women describe the selling process: “Price tags were put on us. They bought us for 10 dollars, 20 dollars, some for 100 dollars, or as a gift....[I was sold] five times.”

writes in depth about genocide in both the 20th and 21st centuries for her book ‘Genocide’. Heidi. If our viewers are interested in the Yazidi’s struggle they can read more using the link in our bio or by searching Genocide by Heidi Kingstone on Amazon.

25/08/2026

.griffiths.photo on the 2018 BBC Documentary ‘Squaddies on the Frontline’

Pigs’ Disco captures the brutal reality of life of a soldier in Northern Ireland in the early 90s as rave culture exploded, exploring drug use in the British Army through Griffiths’ own memories. He skilfully reflects the strange dichotomy, which sees soldiers as an impersonal collective unit on one hand, and young, sometimes very fragile individuals on the other. Originally published as a limited edition of 500 copies in 2013, soon after its release, the Daily Mail ran a feature which immediately caused wide spread controversy, and very quickly sold out.

You can read it now by clicking the link in our bio!

Mayday 2002 and 2003 as photographed by Dr. Stuart Griffiths Since the late 1800s, May Day on 1 May has been marked by p...
24/08/2026

Mayday 2002 and 2003 as photographed by Dr. Stuart Griffiths

Since the late 1800s, May Day on 1 May has been marked by political demonstrations and marches in central London. Mayday 2001 was bedlam in both London and Europe with dozens of anticapitalist protesters were arrested in Britian. In London a series of protests, taking place under a “May Day monopoly” banner, converged on Oxford Circus. The city became paralysed and there were isolated incidents of violence, with some shops attacked. The signature tune of the day however was one of frustration as the police in riot gear detained thousands of peaceful protesters in Oxford Street and its environs for up to eight hours.

Following the Chaos of 2001 a subdued May Day followed. Despite police fears that protesters would wreak havoc in the elite Mayfair district of central London, there were only a few brief skirmishes and a dozen or so arrests. However, in Paris 800,000 marched against Jean-Marie Le Pen in the biggest demonstrations in the French capital since the student uprising of 1968. A two-mile anti-Le Pen carnival set off from the Place de la République and well over a million took place take to the streets in more than 100 towns and villages across the country.

In 2003 an estimated 600 protesters held a party on the Circle Line on the London Underground. Protesters/partygoers snuck onto the Circle Line at Liverpool Street station, taking over four carriages. Bemused commuters looked on as posters were placed over the advertisements and protesters removed their suits to reveal costumes. At least one man was seen naked. The party continued to complete two complete circuits of the line. Police were called but the party ended peacefully with no arrests

20/08/2026

This clip comes from the BBC documentary Yazidi Women: Slaves of the Caliphate in which the BBC’s Arabic Service followed a young woman as she negotiated to free Yazidi women being held captive by Islamic State fighters in Northern Iraq.

The Yazidi Genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal r**e, and forced conversions to Islam. The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking people who are indigenous to Kurdistan and practice Yazidism, a monotheistic Iranian ethnoreligion derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.

Over a period of three years, Islamic State militants trafficked thousands of Yazidi women and girls and killed thousands of Yazidi men. The United Nations reported that the Islamic State killed about 5,000 Yazidis and trafficked about 10,800 Yazidi women and girls in a “forced conversion campaign” throughout Iraq. By 2015, upwards of 71% of the global Yazidi population was displaced by the genocide.

You can read Genocide by which conveys the plight of the Yazidis in depth. It is available in paperback or digitally from the link in our bio or by searching “Heidi Kingston Genocide” on Amazon.

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