Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Most Tragic Pictures


November, 1962 James NACKTWEY, USA, Magnum Photos, USA for Liberation, France. Mother holding the body of her son, victim of hunger, before being buried in Bardera, Somalia.


December, 1984 Pablo Bartholomew, India, Gamma. Child killed by poison gas after the explosion at the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India.


October 30, 1983 Mustafa BOZDEMIR, Turkey, Hürriyet GAZETESI. Kezban Özer found the corpses of their sons 5 after being buried alive after a devastating earthquake in Koyunoren, east of Turkey


April, 1980 MICHAEL Wells, United Kingdom. A missionary grabs the hand of a child about to die of hunger in Karamoja, Uganda.


July 22, 1975 STANLEY Forman, USA, THE BOSTON HERALD. A woman and a girl are launched by the window to escape the incedio his home in an apartment building in Boston, USA.


July, 1974 OVI Carter, USA, Chicago Tribune. Child victims of drought in Kao, Niger.


September, 1965 KYOICHI Sawa, Japan, United Press International. A mother with her children crosses a river in Binh Dinht (South Vietnam) to escape U.S. bombing


June 11, 1963 MALCOLM W. Brown, USA, The Associated Press. The Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc autoinmola was set on fire in Saigon in protest against religious persecution government sudvietnamita.


June 4, 1962 Hector Rondon Lovera, Venezuela, daily La Republica. One soldier was killed by a sniper embraces the chaplain of the armed Luis Padillo in the Venezuelan naval base of Puerto Capello


October 12, 1960 YASUCHI Nagao, Japan, Mainichi Shimbun. The rightist student killed the president of Socialist Party Inejiro Asanuma during a speech in Tokyo













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