Written on April 02nd, 2007 by RVinki
POWERFUL IMAGES FROM TIME
1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts were one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.
January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.
1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government’s torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.
1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.
1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.
1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.
February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.
1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.
1973. A few seconds before Chile ’s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.
1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.
1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.
February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain . The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.
1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon .
1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.
1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.
1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.
1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.
1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola .
2001. An Afghani refugee kid’s body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan .
2002. Soldiers and villagers in IRan are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father’s pants before he is buried.
2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.
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It really makes you wonder about people, doesn’t it
This is a tragic documentary of mankind. And yet life continues unabated.
“Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.”
Jade and Gary, welcome to the real world. If you’re so appalled and critical, then do something. Yeah, that’s what I thought. It’s terrible, and it happens all the time, and it’s been happening since the first animals walked this Earth. Human nature, go figure.
WHAT is happened to the child who is on the last photo?
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murders an for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall– think of it, ALWAYS.”
Mahatma Gandhi
just one word… HOPE-we still have it, cling to it…
So powerful, thank you
Sinthyia
This is why humans are considered the worse creatures on Earth.
I find the 1989 tiananmen square photo to be an encouraging testament to the courageous spirit of people and everyone’s desire to be free. Unlike the others, that image is inspirational.
BTW, where are the photos of the Kurds that Saddam murdered? Where are the photos of Holocaust victims? Where are the photos of the mass graves from Milosevic’s regime?
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Why do we do such horrible things to our fellow humans?
It is interesting to observe that bihind most of the suffering in one way or another stands the US goverment.
> It is interesting to observe that bihind most of the suffering > in one way or another stands the US goverment.
Perhaps in this photoblog this comment is accurate, but lest we are ignorant of history, the USA came along only in the last 250 years.
These images give people purpouse. I would like for them to show them every day or even put them on calenders. Why? Because in life there is more purpouse for us americans and others that are more fortunate to actually make a difference with picking out a cause to stand for something.
If you don’t stand for anything you will fall for everything.
the united states is just very good at hiding all the shit that they start. Their leader is a babbling monkey but congress and the CIA are cunning. The vietnam war was one of the most pointless conflicts in history. The united states actually then has the courage to speak of The Soviet Union using propaganda? THe government at the time tried desparatly to brain wash the public about the war, but failed. That image with the naked child running down the street was testament to US blunderment. The child’s village had just been completely napalmed(a napalm bomb is one of the most unaccurate bombs ever devised and torches everything in its proximity).And for SPITFIRE….these are pictures above just so you know. THe US came around only about 250 years ago yes, but cameras came about a bit later in history, so i believe the comment above yours was referring to the pictures, not the entire history of comflict which spans some odd 10 thousand years.
Shit happens. It always will happen. Carry on with your own lives and stop worrying about everybody else’s.
Pictures are real, but the comments under each picture do not tell you the whole story behind some. For example, for ‘February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.’, what it doesn’t telll you is that the Viet Kong soldier dressed in civilian cloths had just killed the mother and children in their own home of one of the Police chief Ngoc’s lieutenants. war is hell
wow, these are such strong images. something like this happens everyday, but we never stop to think about it. These are great images, keep them coming!
Funny how most of this centers around the USA. Somethings never change…
Shocking, Interesting,Inspirational
If anything, the suffering has only escalated since the most recent of these was taken. Over a million Iraqi civilians dead is evidence of genocide. Depleted Uranium has elevated the levels of radiation in the region exponentially, and cancer rates have skyrocketed. The war crimes that our tax dollars fund are only beginning to become exposed. Our hands, the hands of every tax paying citizen in the United States, are covered in blood.
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I’m not an American, but even I get a little sick of the constant US bashing. I guess it’s always easy to point the finger at someone else, after all, there’s nothing like a good scapegoat… Here’s a couple of questions for those with the outstretched fingers; what nationality were the people who were responsible for the holocaust? what nationality was responsible for the atrocities in the FMR? what nationality was responsible for the establishment of apartheid? While the mistakes that the US have made are numerous, I cannot accept that they are responsible for all man’s demonstrations of how inhumane we can be. Bottom line: there are bad people all over the world, quit trying to pass the buck.
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I am not so glittery right now. I am ashamed to be part of the human race after seeing these images. May the Lord help us all.
Sad. I’ve seen things like this before. But never took the time to really focus on them, to take time out of my day to think about how bad things really are. I’m whining about relationship problems, and about what I’m getting for Christmas, or what the latest drama is. It’s time to drop these things and start to change the world, one person at a time. I change myself, and wait for the others to follow. May we not ask the Lord for forgiveness, but only in the deepest part of the human heart shall we find the answer to forgiveness. So be not ashamed of what you have done, but be courageous on what you can fix.
The picture of the people and the naked Vietnamese girl running from a bomb should note the bomb was Napalm. Napalm is a pure ball of fire.
What an useless, if not amusing, piece of moralizing bullocks.
Do you love misery and tragedy so much that you want to shove it down to everyone’s throat?
Life is horrible, get over it. No wonder you leftists and Christians are so insecure and weak if every suffering human being makes you weep for “more ethical treatment.”
Regardless of what you insist, life is pure beauty. With or without mankind.
“I believe… In tragedies. I believe… in desecration!”
- Abbath
The message? Life is tragic, but life is beautiful. stop whining and get used to it.
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only a creacure can do such a thinks…
I wish I had known that by “powerful” you meant fucking God awful disgusting deaths, all manner of torture, pain, fear, and cruelty.
And here, I thought images of beauty and kindness could be powerful.
I suppose, not being American, I could never be expected to understand “power.”
Excellent pictures showing history, makes you feel happy your sitting at a computer typing instead of in war.
These are some of the most powerful and explosive photographs ever taken. However, the captions lack even the bare minimum amount of information and citations required for this collection to be considered legitimate.
Really horrible job.