AP PHOTOS: Haunting images of people fleeing their homelands
By The Associated Press, Associated Press
Sep 4, 2015 3:45 PM CDT
FILE - In this June 23, 2015 file photo, a Belgian navy sailor tosses a life vest to migrants sitting in a rubber boat as they approach the Belgian Navy Vessel Godetia during a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. Hundreds of migrants were rescued by the Godetia,...   (Associated Press)

Wrenching images of a drowned Syrian boy focused the world's attention this week on the plight of people fleeing their homelands. But the crisis has been developing for years. Here are other indelible images taken by Associated Press photographers that you may have missed.

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