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Intrepid Lemoyne honoured again Every year, more than 3,500 professional photojournalists submit over 36,000 photographs to the World Press Photo Awards. This year, a series of 12 pictures submitted by Montreal photographer Roger Lemoyne has been selected as a prize-winner from amongst the heap. Lemoyne's series of photos, documenting the plight of Kosovo Albanians caught in a battle between the Serbian military and the local rebel army last October, were awarded second prize in the People in the News category. The photo reprinted here shows a displaced Albanian woman using an aid worker's mobile phone to contact relatives in other parts of the region. "The local population bore the brunt of that conflict," says Lemoyne, who last year won an award from the National Press Photographers Association for a series on Rwanda. "The Serbs either burned or shot up half the homes in Kosovo. The rebels are a true guerrilla force of local mountaineer-type guys, running through the woods taking potshots at a well-equipped army." --Philip Preville
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