1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was 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 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 in Columbia.
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 Vietcong soldier.
February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Cong soldier
1973. A few seconds before Chile elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.
1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses in New York
1980. A child in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionary holding onto him.
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. The beginning of it all.... 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.
2001. An Afghani refugee child 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 clothes before he is buried
2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.
8 Comments
November 21, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Extraordinary photos.
November 22, 2008 at 5:12 am
Wow, that left me both depressed and in awe, thanks for compiling
November 22, 2008 at 5:47 am
Pictures speak a thousand words. Damn depressing. But hope still survives. And things change. People like Dorothy Counts make a difference.
November 23, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Gosh, these are spine chilling pictures of terror. Jazakallah for displaying them.
November 23, 2008 at 5:22 pm
they made me sad… really sad…. and almost all of those terrific situations were man-made!
November 24, 2008 at 4:06 pm
sometimes its not to happen but it does happen …and its very painfull for them who are involve in the tragic situation………yes these pictures say it all .
November 27, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Inspiring pictures. Have seen many of them before, but their impact is still the same – depressing, yet challenging, there is so much to do.
January 22, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Inspiring
Amazing
Fantastic
Photos