Unforgettables !!!!
Posted by Jerry on 12:28 - February 10, 2007

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.
Taken unaltered from – Dismal World – Snapshots from the not-so-happy globe


razarumi said
Jerry
I have cross posted some photos from here with credits of course. You may wish to see this poem on Iraq http://razarumi.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/mission-accomplished-louise-rill-on-iraq/
RR
Stiletto said
Hey Jerry Boy!!
Great going man! U so much into Blogging?? Hmm.. Have worked hard!!
Keep the good work going man!! ATB..
Anthony said
Jerry.. I copied all this pictures and captions and put in my blog,
Of course with credits and reference of your page…
good work
Thanks!
Anthony
SWATHI said
Hi,
I saw it thru Anthony’s blog…and i have added it to my blog roll….i am speechless! and thanks for sharing!
-swathi
Subrat said
Part of the world which we hardly come across but are true! Thanks for sharing!!!
-Subrat
Maslov said
Jerry your photos are the example of what we are never going to learn, over the past 100 years we have been taking this photos of war and the wars doesnt end, the last picture of the Irak prisioner and his child touch me deep inside, but the true is that kid is going to grow up only thinking how can he get revenge and willing to give his life on his goal, so is circle that never end
Is time to get back to our roots….
Jerry said
the fact is no one cares abt the future.. they just live in the present and die in the present. if we all just thought abt the causalities of our actions, a better tomor could be guaranteed for the next gen.
Maslov, you are right abt the kid and many thousands like him, in effect the war on terrorism is yielding more enemies than ever. and we all are at stake here