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Disturbing Content, viewers discretion is advised. The following post contains very strong images with dead-body, death or destruction. Viewing this gallery may traumatize to some readers and make a strong on one’s memory.
The vulture and the little girl
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Frank Fournier’s photograph of Omayra Sánchez
This haunting photo is of Omayra Sánchez, a 13 years old girl from Columbia. She was stuck in beneath the debris of her house in Columbia, aftermath of a devastating ‘lahar’ (violent type of mudflows, landslides, and debris flows induced by volcanic activity) in November, 1986. Omayra was trapped for almost 3 days and after struggling for more than 60 hours she died. People tried to help her but failed. One you see the photo, it’ll remain in your memory for long. Read more here in Wikipedia.
Aftermath of Hiroshima attack, a boy was standing with his dead brother on his back to be ceramated
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This photo was taken just few moments before Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, that killed 29 people including the photographer
May be the last known photos of Titanic in last fateful voyage
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Photo of a beautiful and well dressed dead girls with with her dolls, it was custom to take dead person’s photo
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A jewish man, kneeling before a pit filled with bodies, about to be shot by a German soldier
A 1980 photo by Mike Wells, showing a severely malnourished Uganda boy’s hand rests in a Catholic monk’s hand.
Photo #10
A lonely injured baby is cryingat a shattered Shanghai South railway station aftermath of bomb blast in 1937
Known as Bloody Saturday the photo was taken on 28 August 1937 by H. S. Wong. More info here and here.
An American evacuee punches away a South Vietnamese man who was trying to get in for a place on the last chopper out of the US embassy in 1975
Along with 4 other scared and crying children and few army people, a 9-year old naked girl fleeing from a Vietnam village after a napalm bomb was accidentally dropped, she survived by tearing off her clothes
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Could be the last photo of 14 years Regina Kay Walters, the victim of serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, known as ‘Truck Stop Killer”. Photos shows scared Regina Kay Walters in just above knee-height black dress and black, raised hand as if to protect herself
Human skin gloves made by Ed Gein known ‘Butcher of Plainfield’ or Plainfield Ghoul. He was an American convicted murderer and body snatcher
Photo #15
Apollo1 astronaut mocking a prayer for a gag version of a crew portrait showing their concern of the safety of Apllo 1 Spacecraft. Photo shows The crews heads were bowed and hands were clasped in prayer infront of the miniature spacecraft. Later they all died in fire in a routine simulated launch test
Photo #16
A Mongolian woman condemned to die of starvation left locked in a wooden box at a deserted area
Photo #17
Man falling to death from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in 2001
A Nazi soldier shooting from a very close range to kill a Jewish mother, who was desperate to save her child by embracing the child
Another example of the Nazi atrocities. More about this heart breaking incidents here.
An 11 years old girl was found floating on a disintegrating float. Her whole family was murdered on a sail boat by their hired captain who left her to drown with the sinking boat
Khmer Rouge Killing Fields, Cambodia
“The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings are widely regarded as part of a broad state-sponsored genocide (the Cambodian genocide)” – Wikipedia. Image Source.
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A circus elephant was killed by hanging from crane for killing its rider in front of many people in 1926, Tennessee
Photo #23
Saigon Execution. A photo taken by Eddie Adams in Vietnam war in 1968 showing a VietCong assassin Nguyen Van Lem was executed by Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan from a point blank range
This is a classical example of you ‘perception’ changed ones you know the story behind it. Read the story here, you must read it.
The Great Bengal Famine of 1943
Treatment of a mental patient in 1890
In October of 1942, a German military shoots at a Jewish lady after a mass execution in Mizocz, Ukraine
A Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music.
