Most Powerful and Unforgettable Images from around the World
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.
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.
This guy (post) has a list of most unforgettable pictures .
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This post has 32 comments
October 16th, 2007
With the Japanese Student assassin, it should read “seconds After….”
Not “seconds before…” he is withdrawing the blade, and Asanuma is reeling from the blow.
May 5th, 2009
Omg that is just really bad i dont c u people do that thats sick and i dont think i would want to be there at that time that is really sad.
October 16th, 2007
Too bad this article is so riddled with typoes it puts the excellent photos to shame.
Someone must have outsourced this page design to India.
June 8th, 2009
Hey, asshole. The average english ‘writing’ Indian is just as good (or bad) with his english grammar as any average American. So keep those outsourced prejudiced comments out of this one. You just killed the message of universality of human suffering that these pics address.
October 8th, 2009
Well said Savio…
October 8th, 2009
Phil you may want to check your own ‘typoes’, its typo!
October 16th, 2007
Although I have seen these images many times they still never fail to shock. Mans inhumainty towards our own brothers and sisters is disgusting. Incidentally the photo of the naked vietnamese child running down the road was actually a victim of a napalm bomb which removed her clothes and gave her 2nd degree burns over 70% of her body. She was subsequently treated at a M.A.S.H camp. The photo (and others) were smuggled out by journalists to avoid the censorship of the period and those photos had a huge effect in shifting public opinion in America against the war in vietnam.
October 16th, 2007
Wow, powerful images…
October 17th, 2007
Gives new meaning to the “right place at the right time.”
Sometimes I think it’s the wrong place at the wrong time.
October 17th, 2007
a KID is a baby goat, the word youre looking for would be CHILD.
October 17th, 2007
How many of the above events did not have anything to do with American Foreign Policies? (before you start answering, please do more research to these events.)
October 17th, 2007
MOST powerful and unforgettable images?
how about the images from Indonesian Anti-Chinese Riot?
October 17th, 2007
Insta-depression. :/ Life is so cruel…RIP fellows.
October 17th, 2007
Unfortunately our abandonment of the South Vietnamese allowed
the North To kill over 1 million more of them.
October 17th, 2007
The picture of the Vietnamese man about to be shot in which the caption reads “February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier” is incorrectly labeled.
To clarify, that man was a North Vietnamese Army officer caught operating behind enemy lines without wearing a uniform in clear violation of the Geneva Convention, effectively making him a spy. Under the Geneva Convention he is open to execution upon capture.
October 17th, 2007
Conspicuously absent…9/11 photos. WWII atrocities. Hmmm.
October 17th, 2007
Those are definitely powerful images but…
Where are the pictures of the Jews who’ve been murdered by Palestinian suicide bombers?
Where are the pictures from WWII?
How about pictures from Darfur?
Or the Berlin wall coming down?
Or 9/11?
Your post is very lacking.
June 1st, 2009
‘Where are the pictures of the Jews who’ve been murdered by Palestinian suicide bombers?’
I think you’ve either missed out on ALOT of imformation such as the Israeli’s (Jews) killing and injuring thousands of civillians as the result of some idiot terrorists killing about 13 Israelis.
Or you’re simply not intrested in looking at both sides.
October 17th, 2007
1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.
Is wrong, that was the result of an american ordered airstrike.
The girl in the middle has since met up with the U.S commander who ordered it and forgiven him.
October 17th, 2007
Correction: it’s not Colonel Molina but Lieutenant-Colonel Tejero.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Tejero
October 17th, 2007
what about war in Coratia, and Vukovar. there a lot of people murdered by Serbian Army?
October 17th, 2007
I am not sure whether that 1989 photo was actually from China. It looks more like from Panama when the US invaded it to oust Gen. Noriyega. Correct me if am wrong.
October 17th, 2007
The picture of China is from Tienamen square.
If you are a Chinese living in China, then you likely had never heard of the Tianamen Square massacre.. though the rest of the world is well informed.
China has censored all information regarding the incident (amongst much other censored information), but try checking wikipedia.
As for other comments, this doesn’t appear to be a listing of photos of the most horrific incidents in history.. just of very powerful images. I’ll give the poster credit, the images captured by the photographers are incredibly powerful and memorable. Not everything in life is a competition, so sit back and accept this for what it is.
October 17th, 2007
That is not some girl running away from accidentally dropped bombs idiots! It America’s direct bombing of Hiroshima signaling the end of the second world war – It is one of the most powerful images in the world do it justice by getting the origins right dammit
October 17th, 2007
here is link to the image thay I feel should be on that list:
http://www.zamislisrbiju.org/foto/idc_foto_03/images/Bosna-logor%20Trnopolje%2092.jpg
This is taken in Trnopolje, serb concentration camp, in north bosnia, where bosnian muslims were held hostages, killed, starved to death etc….
image has been taken by some “western” media, ITN if I am not mistaking, who managed to get to “camps of death” on the summer of 1992.
there are lots of images from bosnian war 1992-1995 on this page:
http://www.sarajevo-x.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22063&highlight=zaboravi
any way, great post you should keep updating or post simmilar posts regulary.
October 18th, 2007
the naked girl photo was taken in viet nam do your own research before you rampantly and indiscriminately insult strangers , and dammit is spelled “damnit”
October 18th, 2007
And BTW i agree , they are powerful and yes thetre are terrible people out there perhaps we should try communicating with ALL of them and find out what they want then take everything we have and give it to them , then when they they still hate us and think we’re not evil imperialists just more pathatic victims for the chopping block, how about we we all just get in line and lie down and wait for them to rape, torture and murder us? That would seem to be the most peaceful resolution.
October 21st, 2007
Let me cry…..
October 24th, 2007
i Don’t Know What Should I say !!!
It’s Terrible !!
I want to cry !
November 17th, 2007
America is responsible for most of these images..that is why 9/11 was a payback.
August 15th, 2009
mr.john daquilla, my name z syed aamir frm india . i’m totally agreed with u..
December 2nd, 2007
How about the picture of the Algerian girl who was raped and killed by French soldiers during the Algerian War of Independence? It helped to turn the opinion of French (at least those living in France).
If you are going to protest the stupidity of violence don’t be so ideological or chauvinistic – you lose credibility completely. No country or ethnicity is free from having committed or having been complacent towards the commission of atrocities.
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