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Shocking Moments In The History

// April 15th, 2009 // General

Pictures to admire. A collection of photos of significance. These are pictures that hold significant interest and historical value.

1. 1960: Seconds before the assassination of the leader of Asanoma Japanese Party, by an opponent student.

2. 1962: A soldier hit by a sniper, holding a priest in his final moments.

3. 1963: Chin Kang Douk, the Buddhist leader in south Vietnam, burning himself in protest to the torture methods used by the Vietnamese government. Chin remained calm and did not move during burning himself.

4. 1965: A mother and her children crossing the river in Vietnam, escaping the American bombardment.

5. Police Chief of Staff in South Vietnam shooting at a Vietnamese youth.

6. 1973: Moments before the death of the elected Chilean president Silvadore Alendy during the revolt.

7. 1975: A woman and her child fall to their death from a collapsed balcony while escaping fire in their building.

8. 1980: The hand of a starving kid from Uganda in the palm of an aid worker.

9. 1981: Colonel Mullena and the military police, while storming the Spanish parliament and holding the members hostages.

10. 1982: Palestinian refugees massacred in Sabra and Shatilla camp, Lebanon.

11. 1992: A Somalia mother buries her son who died of starvation.

12. 1994: A man tortured by the Rwanda soldiers for suspicion of talking to Tutsi rebels.

13. 2003: An Iraqi prisoner of war, trying to calm down his son.

Credit goes to the individual photographers.

*Special note from me*
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