DISQUS

Sam · 2 years ago

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.

Mariah S. · 7 months ago

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.

Phil E. Drifter · 2 years ago

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.

savio menezes · 6 months ago

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.

Stephanie · 2 months ago

Well said Savio...

Sher · 2 months ago

Phil you may want to check your own 'typoes', its typo!

Milander · 2 years ago

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.

Eric Monse · 2 years ago

Wow, powerful images...

Ravi Vora · 2 years ago

Gives new meaning to the "right place at the right time."

Sometimes I think it's the wrong place at the wrong time.

Grammar Police · 2 years ago

a KID is a baby goat, the word youre looking for would be CHILD.

bush · 2 years ago

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.)

Daneil Liew · 2 years ago

MOST powerful and unforgettable images?
how about the images from Indonesian Anti-Chinese Riot?

Kam · 2 years ago

Insta-depression. :/ Life is so cruel...RIP fellows.

sean · 2 years ago

Unfortunately our abandonment of the South Vietnamese allowed
the North To kill over 1 million more of them.

Andrew Munoz · 2 years ago

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.

Krellman · 2 years ago

Conspicuously absent...9/11 photos. WWII atrocities. Hmmm.

Chris · 2 years ago

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.

Sara · 7 months ago

'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.

Ndrew · 2 years ago

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.

Dani · 2 years ago

Correction: it's not Colonel Molina but Lieutenant-Colonel Tejero.


See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Tejero

darko · 2 years ago

what about war in Coratia, and Vukovar. there a lot of people murdered by Serbian Army?

rajab · 2 years ago

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.

Matt · 2 years ago

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.

Jade · 2 years ago

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

baxul · 2 years ago

here is link to the image thay I feel should be on that list:
http://www.zamislisrbiju.org/foto/idc_foto_03/i...

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...


any way, great post you should keep updating or post simmilar posts regulary.

Bruce · 2 years ago

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"

Bruce · 2 years ago

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.

HoPPiCo · 2 years ago

Let me cry.....

BigKHB · 2 years ago

i Don't Know What Should I say !!!
It's Terrible !!
I want to cry !

john daquila · 2 years ago

America is responsible for most of these images..that is why 9/11 was a payback.

Aamir · 4 months ago

mr.john daquilla, my name z syed aamir frm india . i'm totally agreed with u..

Sam · 2 years ago

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.