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 harassment 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 mother 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.

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 kids 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.



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???