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Monday, November 15, 2010

Pictures Which Had A Meaning............


Pictures which had a Meaning....






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 Vietcong soldier.


February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a young man,

whom he suspects to be a Viet Cong soldier..


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 missionary.


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 life is a great puzzle,

and survival is a great mystery!!!


We have food, clothes, shelter, freedom, safety, some money, and friends

and still we are fighting , deceiving our friends, relatives and ourselves

for small personal gains.....


Think....


Are those reasons big enough than these  ??????

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