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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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I want to thank everyone for this thread, I've spent the last couple of days going through the photos and looking up things that I didn't know about, it has also been a history lesson
I've laughed, cried and been genuinely sickened and heartbroken at what, we as humans, can do to each other.
I don't think there was any need for those who criticised other's posts as being silly or irrelevant just because they were about football or Dustin the Turkey. It's a very subjective thing, just because it didn't have an effect on you doesn't mean it didn't have one on someone else, please be mature and open-minded enough to see that and don't add to the growing number of 'nah-sayers' and people who like to knock you down in Ireland...
Keep posting guys, by far one of the best things I've seen on boards or on the web for that matter
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This isn't a photo that shook the world. But it is shocking in it's own right. So much wrong with it - it beggars belief, a lovely place to go sightseeing
photograph depicts a group of affluent-looking young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighbourhood devastated by Israeli bombings. The image was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.
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This news story did shock the world though. Incredible photo.
A supporter of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is overcome with grief after a suicide bomber set off his charge in an assassination attack that killed Bhutto and many of her supporters December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The opposition leader’s death sparked days of nationwide rioting, left the country in a state of shock and cast serious doubts on the possibility of democracy in Pakistan.
http://bop.nppa.org/2008/still_photography/winners/?cat=INN
All the obvious photos have been posted already on this thread - some of the more modern ones will become classics in time, I believe. This photo just shows how much that man lost - all his hopes and dreams in the murder of Benazir Bhutto..0 -
Kenji Nagai, the photographer killed in Burma holds his camera willing to continue taking pictures… of his killer.
This was Kenji Nagai, a 50-year-old photojournalist killed working for the Tokyo-based APF News who, The Guardian said, had years of experience covering danger zones.
Kenji was fatally wounded in Yangon on Thursday, and pictures smuggled out of the country showed him clutching a camera as he lay dying
There is a really good piece on the below link about the suppression of journalists reporting news to the world below.
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Queen-Mise wrote: »There is a really good piece on the below link about the suppression of journalists reporting news to the world below.
http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/index.php/category/photojournalism/
Here is another photo of the same killing, a different perspective
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poor Iraqi mothers
poor iraqi child
The best kept secret of the Bush's war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions and related international agreements.0 -
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Hope Eager Windfall wrote: »
And these people try tell us the west is barbaric!.
Pretty sure I have seen the video footage of that one. I will never forget arguing with a boards moderator (islamic forum) who maintained that stoning adulterous women to death was acceptable in his view. Animal behaviour.0 -
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This is a website showing communist crimes against humanity by soviet russia in east europe
Pretty much all of the photographs are disturbing
http://www.lietuvos.org/istorija/communism/
Pt 2 is 1945 - 1980 -Soviet & Chineese communist warcrimes
http://www.lietuvos.org/istorija/communism/communism_2.htm
(Very nsfw).
This is one of the more viewable ones (of Katyn)
NKVD prison in Vinnitsa
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Anti-Nazi resistance leader Freya von Moltke dies aged 98
Prominent member of German resistance during second world war passes away at her home in Vermont
A prominent member of the anti-Nazi resistance in the second world war has died at the age of 98 at her home in Vermont. Freya von Moltke died on Friday after suffering a viral infection, her son said.
Von Moltke formed a group known as the Kreisau Circle with her husband,, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, which discussed plans for the democratic Germany they hoped would follow the fall of the Third Reich. The group supported the failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Hitler.
Von Moltke moved to Vermont in 1960, where she published her memoirs, Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance.
Von Moltke described her life in the resistance with her husband, who was executed for his activities, in an interview in 2002, saying: "To object and then to stand for what you believe in is one of the most important human activities to this day."
Born Freya Deichmann, into a banking family in 1911 in Cologne, Freya von Moltke met her future husband when she was 18. They were married in 1931 and both received law degrees.
The couple settled on his Silesian estate, Kreisau, located in present-day Poland. In 1932, they moved to Berlin where Helmuth von Moltke set up an international law practice. An opponent of Hitler's regime from its start, Helmuth von Moltke assisted Jews and other victims of Nazism. Helmuth von Moltke was drafted into the German army in 1939 as a specialist in international and martial law, but during his military service he advocated the humane treatment of prisoners of war and civilians in German-occupied territories under the Geneva conventions.
In 1947, Freya von Moltke left for South Africa, where her mother-in-law had been born. She worked as a social worker, but grew troubled by the apartheid regime and returned to Germany in 1956, where she began work on publicising the activities of the Kreisau Circle.
She moved to the US to live with Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, a Dartmouth College professor and social philosopher who had fled Germany after the rise of the Nazis. After Rosenstock-Huessy died in 1973, she dedicated herself to promoting his works, in addition to those of her late husband
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Some previously unreleased pictures from 9/11
http://www.biker.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=107094New 9/11 photos give dramatic view of attack
In the air for three hours, Det. Semendinger took three rolls of 36 stills with his personal Minolta Maxxum 7000 camera and another 245 with his digital Olympus U-2100.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7022280.ece
Some fairly striking images, more here
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/new-9-1...3360226/photos
Finding more
A plume of smoke rises up from one of the towers as it collapses
And some hope
Eight years on a new tower rises up at 'Ground Zero'0 -
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Harold J. Haley (November 14, 1904 – August 7, 1970) was a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California. He was taken hostage in his courtroom, along with several others, during the course of a trial, and murdered during the attempted escape of his captors with their hostages.
On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson brought guns into Judge Haley's courtroom, where San Quentin inmate James McClain was on trial. McClain was freed along with two other San Quentin inmates, Ruchell Magee and William Christmas, who were present at the trial as witnesses. Jackson and the prisoners took Haley and four other people hostage and attempted to escape.
Haley, Jackson, McClain and Christmas were killed as the abductors attempted to drive away from the courthouse. Haley was apparently hit by fire from a sawed-off shotgun that had been fastened to his neck with adhesive tape by the abductors. Two of the other hostages were wounded.
Photographs of the event were taken by news photographers Jim Kean and Roger Bockrath. The best-known photograph by Bockrath shows McClain leading out the hostages, pointing a revolver at police with his right hand while holding a shotgun taped around Haley's neck with his left hand.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150127.html
Ireland confirms 'Irish' Dubai killers don't exist
By Avi Issacharoff and Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies
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The government added that the Irish passport numbers publicized by Dubai authorities also are counterfeits, because they have the wrong number of digits and contain no letters.
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British government sources told the Daily Telegraph earlier Tuesday that the three Irish passport-holders were most likely Mossad agents carrying false documentation.
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raindog.promo wrote: »I'lll have to look up some photos that give hope and that to try balancing the scales on this thread.
There's Burst of Joy from Sal Verder. A US POW returning from Vietnam, often seen as the defining image of the end of US involvement in the Vietnam war. Great shot.
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Excellent thread.
These have probably been posted already, but there are so many I have forgotten half :rolleyes:
Charles Manson
This one still shakes the world today!
Lord Kitchener
RMS Lusitania's sinking shocks the world
Pearl Harbour December 7, 1941. The USS Arizona is pictured in flames
Something closer to home, but for me, an iconic Irish image.
Scott’s party at the South Pole. From left to right, Scott, Oates, Wilson, Evans. They arrived on 18 Jan 1912 only to find the Amundsen and the other Norwegians had beet them to it. None of Scott's party made it home alive.0 -
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