50 Most Tragic Pictures in Photographic History

Pictures

The title of this post is actually 50 Best photos in History, going through them, I have not
found one picture that is not sad, hence came up with the title. These fifty pictures are a
testimony to the tragedy caused by humankind to the same. Compiling these photos and
adding the captions to them was as painful as looking at these pictures, if you are going
through, please be aware that you might have seen a few of the pictures in this collection,
but there could be many more that you might not have seen. Please read the captions as
each image is associated with a tragic, path breaking and historic story.

November 16, 1985 FRANK Fournier, France, CONTACT Press Images. The girl 12
years, Omayra Sanchez, caught between the remnants caused by the eruption of the
volcano Nevado del Ruiz, in Armero, Colombia. The girl, after 60 hours of fighting, lost
consciousness and died. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
September, 1958 STANISLAV TEREBA, Czechoslovakia, VECERNIK Praha.
Championship football teams between Prague and Bratislava. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
October 12, 1960 YASUCHI Nagao, Japan, Mainichi Shimbun. The rightist student
killed the president of Socialist Party Inejiro Asanuma during a speech in Tokyo. Source
and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
June 4, 1962 Hector Rondon Lovera, Venezuela, daily La Republica. One soldier was
killed by a sniper embraces the chaplain of the armed Luis Padillo in the Venezuelan
naval base of Puerto Capello. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
June 11, 1963 MALCOLM W. Brown, USA, The Associated Press. The Buddhist monk
Thich Quang Duc autoinmola was set on fire in Saigon in protest against religious
persecution government sudvietnamita. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
April, 1964 DONALD MCCOLLIN, UK, The Observer, QUICK, life. A woman cries in
Turkish Cyprus by the death of her husband, a victim of the Greek civil war. Source and
copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
September, 1965 KYOICHI Sawa, Japan, United Press International. A mother with her
children crosses a river in Binh Dinht (South Vietnam) to escape U.S. bombing. Source
and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
February 24, 1966 KYOICHI Sawa, Japan, United Press International. The U.S. troops
dragged the body of a soldier in Viet Cong Tan Bihh, South Vietnam. Source and
copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
May, 1967 CO RENTMEESTER, Netherlands, life. The commander of an M48 tank
from 7 th Cavalry in the so-called 'iron triangle' of South Vietnam. Source and copyright
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February 1, 1968 Eddie Adams, USA, The Associated Press. The police chief
sudvietnamita Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect in Saigon. Source and
copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
May, 1969 Hanns-Jörg ANDERS, Germany. A young Catholic during a clash with troops
británcias in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Source and copyright
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December 29, 1971 Wolfgang Peter Gelles, Germany. Exchange of fire between police
and some bank robbers, in Saarbrücken, Germany. Source and copyright
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June 8, 1972 (NICK) CONG UT Huynh, VIETNAM, The Associated Press. Phan Thi
Kim Phuc, center, runs from the scene where the planes of troops have launched
sudvietnamitas Napalm, Trangbang, South Vietnam. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
ANONYMOUS, The New York Times. The democratic president of Chile, Salvador
Allende, moments before his death during the coup, in the Moneda presidential palace in
the capital Santiago de Chile. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
July, 1974 OVI Carter, USA, Chicago Tribune. Child victims of drought in Kao, Niger.
Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
July 22, 1975 STANLEY Forman, USA, THE BOSTON HERALD. A woman and a girl
are launched by the window to escape the incedio his home in an apartment building in
Boston, USA. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
January, 1976 François DEMULDER, France, Gamma. Palestinian refugees took refuge
in the district of La Quarantine Beirut, Lebanon. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
August, 1977 Leslie HAMMOND, South Africa, The Argus. The police evicted the
ghetto with canisters of tear Modderdam, Cape Town, South Africa, where its inhabitants
are protesting against the demolition of their houses. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
March 26, 1978 SADAYUKI MIKAMI, Japan, The Associated Press. Protests against
the construction of Narita airport in Tokyo, Japan. Source and copyright
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April, 1980 MICHAEL Wells, United Kingdom. A missionary grabs the hand of a child
about to die of hunger in Karamoja, Uganda. Source and copyright
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February 23, 1981 BARRIOPEDRO Manuel Perez, Spain, Reuters. Lieutenant Colonel
Antonio Tejero Molina and several members of the Guardia Civil and military police
attacked the parliament of Spain in Madrid in an attempt foiled coup. Source and
copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
September 18, 1982 ROBIN Moya, USA, BLACK STAR for time. Slaughter of
Palestinians by the forces perpetada falangistas Cristina in the refugee camp of Sabra and
Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
October 30, 1983 Mustafa BOZDEMIR, Turkey, Hürriyet GAZETESI. Kezban Özer
found the corpses of their sons 5 after being buried alive after a devastating earthquake in
Koyunoren, east of Turkey. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
December, 1984 Pablo Bartholomew, India, Gamma. Child killed by poison gas after the
explosion at the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
December 18, 1987 Anthony Suau, USA, BLACK STAR. One mother, in Kuro, implores
on the coat of police after her son has been arrested for accusing the government of fraud
in the presidential elections in South Korea. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
December, 1988 David TURNLEY, USA, BLACK STAR / Detroit Free Press. Boris
Abgarzian is aflije of sorrow for the death of her son, aged 17, victim of an earthquake in
Armenia in the former Soviet Union. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
June 4, 1989 Charlie Cole, USA, Newsweek. A protester faces a column of tanks from
the Chinese government during the protests of Tiananmen Square, Beijing, calling for
democratic reform. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
January 28, 1990 George MERILLON, France, Gamma. Nogovac. Women crying at the
deathbed of Elshani Nashim, 27, who was killed during protests against the decision of
the former Yugoslavia to abolish the autonomy of Kosovo. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
February, 1991 David TURNLEY, USA, BLACK STAR / Detroit Free Press. Sergeant
Ken Kozakiewicz crying in Iraq the death of his partner Andy Alaniz, victim-fire friend
on the last day of the Gulf War. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
November, 1962 James NACKTWEY, USA, Magnum Photos, USA for Liberation,
France. Mother holding the body of her son, victim of hunger, before being buried in
Bardera, Somalia. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
March, 1993 LARRY TOWEL, Canada, Magnum Photos. Palestinians raise their
children toy guns in a defiant gesture, in Gaza City, Palestine. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
June, 1994 James Nachtwey, USA, Magnum Photos for Time. A Hutu man maimed by
Hutu militias, suspected of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels in Rwanda. Source and
copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
May, 1995 Lucio PERKINS, USA, The Washington Post. A child rests on the rear glass
of a bus packed with Palestinian refugees fleeing fighting between Russian troops and
Chechen separatists in Shali, Chechnya. The bus was forced to return to Grozny. Source
and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
1996 Zizola French, Italian, Agenzia Contrasto. Victims of landmines in Kuito, Angola, a
nation where many people were killed and injured during the civil war. Source and
copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
September 23, 1997 Hocine, Algeria, Agence France Presse. A woman cries outside the
hospital Zmirli, Algeria, following a slaughter took place in Bentalha. Source and
copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
November 6, 1998 Dayna Smith, USA, The Washington Post. Druante a funeral, relatives
and friends comfort to the widow of a soldier of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who was
shot while patrolling the previous day. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
April, 1999 BJORN Claus Larsen, Denmark, Berlingske Tidende. A Kosovar Albanian
wounded walks through the streets of Kukës, in Albania, one of the major points of
arrival for ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing violence in Kosovo. Source and copyright
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2000 Lara JO Regan, USA, for life. In Texas, USA, the mother of a Mexican immigrant
family prepares piñatas to make ends meet. Source and copyright
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June, 2001 ERIK REFNER, Denmark, Berlingske Tidende FOR. The body of an Afghan
refugee child is ready to be buried. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
June 23, 2002 Eric Grigorian, Armenia / USA, Polaris Images. Surrounded by people and
soldiers that Cape graves for earthquake victims, a child subject pants from his father
died, squatting beside the place where he will be buried. Qazvin, Iran. Source and
copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
March 31, 2003 JEAN-MARC BOUJU, France, The Associated Press. An Iraqi
comforted her son in a centre for prisoners of An Najaf, Iraq, during the war. Source and
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December 28, 2004 Arko Datta, India, Reuters. A woman mourning the death of a family
member victim of the tsunami in Cuddalore, India. Source and copyright
www.worldpressphoto.org
August 1, 2005 Finbarr O'REILLY, Canada, Reuters. A mother and her child in a centre
for international help in Tahoua, Niger. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
August 15, 2006 Spencer Platt, USA, Getty Images. Young Lebanese drive through the
devastated southern suburbs of Beirut. Source and copyright www.worldpressphoto.org
September 16, 2007 TIM Hetherington, UK, FOR VANITY FAIR. A single U.S. rests in
the bunker 'Restrepo', named in honor of a soldier recently killed by insurgents. Source
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September 4, 1957 Douglas MOARTIN, USA, The Associated Press. Dorothy Counts,
one of the first black students to enter the new institute interracial Harry Harding High
School, in Charlotte, North Carolina (USA).
1956 Helmuth PIRATH, Germany, KEYSTONTE PRESS. A German taken prisoner by
the Soviets in World War II meets with his daughter in Germany.
August 28, 1955 Mogens VON Haven, Denmark. One competitor falls from his
motorcycle during a tournament in Randers, Denmark.