Saturday, May 19, 2007

Unforgettable Pictures!!!

Unforgettable Pictures!!!
Wanting a meal
This picture shocked the whole world

2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.
1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.


1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.
1980. A kid in U****a about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.
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.



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.


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'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. Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1991 during the Sudan famine,The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him.
This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer 'Kevin Carter' left the place as soon as the photograph was taken... Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.






6 comments:

Omar Gheriani said...

Subhana Allah, Hasbia Allah.

piccolina said...

oh u broke my heart with those pictures .. alhamdulilah that we have a safe life now !! and as gheriani said " hasbia alla wa ni3ma al wakil "

a_akak said...

They are heart breaking and you just "al-hamid lil-allah" for what we have and insha allah we wouldnt need to make that kind of sacrifice

Fe Aman Allah

oummLeen said...

thank you all for ur nice comment , well as u said all 9llhamdellah ) for all what we have , sometimes we need to see such things to thanks allah for what we have .
allhamdellah ...

Anonymous said...

Thank yu for bringing these pictuers to us.
it is a heart break to think of all the people who died while fighting for what they belive, at the end we are all human despite race or religion.

thanx once again:)

Anonymous said...

(Pictures can speak 1000 words) indeed..
very touching pictures..
i always liked that picture of the man standing in front of that tank in China,,,sometimes they can take away ur freedome,but they can't take ur pride
Good post really..i liked it
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