Wednesday, 21 March 2007

• A Thousand Words

  
  
  The  picture  depicts  a  famine  stricken  child  crawling  towards  an  United  Nations  food  camp,  located  a  kilometre  away.
  The  vulture  is  waiting  for  the  child  to  die  so  that  it  can  eat  it.  This  picture  shocked  the  whole  world.  No  one  knows  what  happened  to  the  child,  including  the  photographer  Kevin Carter  who  won the 1994 Pulitzer prize for this picture. He left  the  place  as  soon  as  the  photograph  was  taken.
  Three  months  later  he  committed  suicide  due  to  depression.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The photograph was taken by Tim Fadek who covered the Qana airstrike in Lebanon by Israel in 2006.
  
  
  
  
  A good samaritan. Taken by an unnnamed photographer in 2007 in Iraq, just outside Basra.
  
  
  
  
  Jason Hayes took this picture in Beslan after the 2004 school massacre by Chechen rebels, which killed more than 180 children.
  
  
  
  
  Washington Post, Dec 12, 2005. "No nation in history has made the transition to a free society without facing challenges, setbacks and false starts, " proclaimed US President George W. Bush.
  
  Fair enough. And what may you ask, defines the word, "challenge"? How about the experiences yet to be had by the young girl above, grieving, screaming silently over the corpse of her dead daddy, gunned down by American forces. A perfect example of "facing challenges" the American way.
  
  
  
  

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