War atrocity imagery shares a recurring defeated victim-visual across genocides

Evidence

Anyone who watched television during the unraveling of Yugoslavia in the 1990s remembers the images of starving Bosnians with hollow and empty eyes, staring at the cameras through the fences that imprisoned them. The same defeated and empty expressions are seen in photographs from Andersonville—like Germany, Poland, Bosnia, and other places that have seen war, genocide, and cruelty beyond imagination in recent centuries. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 743

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• ADDENDUM: Links to ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ — the rhetoric of how atrocity marks itself on bodies — though here the contrast is between victim-expressiveness and the Abu Ghraib images where victims are made unseen beneath hoods and piles.
• XREF: connects to: Posthumous martyr images of ordinary victims can unite a divided public — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 215