Check our new site at here

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Most Powerful and Unforgettable Images from around the World



2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.



January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.



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.




1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.




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.




1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.




2001. An Afghani refugee kid?s body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan .




1973. A few seconds before Chile ?s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.



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.




1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.




1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels




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.




1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.



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.



1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

No comments:

Post a Comment