Photographs That Changed The World

January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments in Columbia.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietcong soldier.

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Cong soldier

1973. A few seconds before Chile elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses in New York

February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

1982. The beginning of it all…. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon

1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.

1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

2001. An Afghani refugee child body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan

2002. Soldiers and villagers in Iran are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father clothes before he is buried

2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

1980. A child in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionary holding onto him.

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.