ahmad shah massoud

ahmad shah massoud instructing his troops on a visit to front line positions. dasht-e-qala, takhar province.

samir awad of palestine

palestinians carried the body of samir awad, a 17yr old who was shot by the israeli military near the west bank separation barrier. palestinians and the israeli military disagreed about whether he had breached the barrier or was running away from it when he was shot.

jan 15, 2013

pakistan marches for change

thousands of pakistanis marched to islamabad to demonstrate for human rights and the rule of law. the march was organized by muhammed tahir-ul qadri, a sufi scholar who has called for a democratic “revolution” in pakistan.

jan 14, 2013.

life after loss - iraq

violence haunts iraqs youngest victims of war

bloody peace

a protester flashes a victory sign with his bloodied hand as other protesters throw stones at army soldiers at the cabinet near tahrir square in cairo.

irony

a BIG shout out to "the onion" for reminding us that there are more important things to be worried about than what celebrities are wearing.

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riots of belfast

a burnt out car blocks dee street in east belfast. pro-british militant groups are instigating and exploiting the riots that have rocked the northern irish capital belfast in the past month, a police officers representative said.

jan 6, 2013

child soldiers of somalia

child soldiers working for warlord musa sudi yalahow, one of three major faction leaders in mogadishu. the transitional government has found it impossible to centralize control over numerous independent clans and factions and even regional governments and the UN maintain their own security and police forces.

mogadishu somalia 2005.

attempted robbery in san pedro sula

a man who says he was attacked with a knife during an attempted robbery sits covered in blood at the catalino rivas hospital emergency room in san pedro sula, a city where the murder rate is almost double the national average of honduras.

syrian proxy was (bustan al-qasr)

a wounded syrian man is treated in a makeshift hospital after artillery mortar shells landed on the opposite side of a bread shop operated by the civilian arm of the free syrian army in the bustan al-qasr neighborhood of aleppo.

dec. 3, 2012.

bahraini protester

a bahraini antigovernment protester prepares to throw a petrol bomb at riot police during clashes in malkiya village. bahrain’s highest court has upheld jail sentences against 20 opposition figures convicted of plotting to overthrow the western-allied government. the ruling is almost certain to bring strong criticism from rights groups, and spark more street protests in the violence wracked gulf kingdom.

jan 7, 2013.

victims of abidjan

relatives of the victims of a stampede after a new year’s eve fireworks display prayed next to coffins in front of a morgue in abidjan, ivory coast. more than 60 people were killed.

pokomo mother & daughter

the bodies of a woman and her daughter after the attack in kibusu, kenya. violence in the region first broke out in august, pitting the pokomo ethnic group, which practices subsistence farming, against its orma neighbors, who are cattle herders.

jan 10, 2013.

syrian proxy war

people help a wounded person after a missile hit aleppos al-Mashhad district.

jan 7, 2013.

rebels of the revolutionary united front

during the presidential elections, the rebels of the RUF (revolutionary united front) tried to dissuade voting by mutilating civilians. the word “terror” was cut or burned into the skin of numerous civilians.

sierra leone. april 16, 1996.

soweto uprising

student mbuyisa makhubo carries fatally injured hector pieterson after he was shot by south african troops during the soweto uprising in 1976. left, his sister antoniette, then 17.

“I saw a child fall down. Under a shower of bullets I rushed forward and went for the picture. It had been a peaceful march, the children were told to disperse, they started singing Nkosi Sikelele. The police were ordered to shoot”

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peace, justice & freedom

“it takes a lot of guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.”

- banksy

iranian students

these iranian student were victims of iraqi bombers that attacked a school in borujerd.

jan 10 1987.

side note - many emotions come to me as i look at this picture, i hope you all can relate & perhaps stop glorifying war.

movement for justice in niger

a nigerian army lieutenant being held hostage by the MNJ “the movement for justice in niger” a tuareg led rebel movement against the niger government for reasons of perceived discrimination and social injustice against the tuareg in niger, april 5th 2009. the rebels are depicted standing on the grounds of a former school establised for tuareg nomad children. the school was attacked by the niger army in their search for rebels in august 2007, three elderly men were also executed by a niger army lieutenant, allegedly the man being held hostage in this picture. he was captured when the tuareg rebels counter attacked and secured 31 niger army hostages. the lieutenant was recently released after two years living as a prisoner of the tuareg rebels. an amnesty was signed with the rebel leaders and the niger government with little being gained by the rebels despite their 3 year prolonged campaign for tuareg rights in mining lands.

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the headsman

a japanese headsman tells a chinese prisoner how to hold his head for a smooth decapitation in a photo dated from 1938.

syrian proxy war

a father was in agony after his two children were killed in aleppo. opposition activists said the children died during shelling by pro-government forces.

jan 3, 2012

zeta drug cartel

suspects are lined up as weapons are displayed to the media by the mexican navy in mexico city june 9, 2011. according to the mexican navy, 204 rifles, 11 guns, 15 hand grenades, uniforms of the mexican navy and of the U.S. army, over 29,000 cartridges and over 200kg (441 pounds) of cocaine and were seized in an operation against the zetas drug cartel in coahuila and nuevo leon in the north of mexico.

20 most powerful photographs ever taken #13

helmuth pirath, the winner of world press photo in 1956 captured the most touching moment when a german WWII prisoner, released by the soviet union, reunited with his daughter who had not seen her father since she was one year old.

saleem al harazi of yemen

cradled by his mother, this young boy lost both eyes to a sniper. the 12yr old was shot when he joined antigovernment protesters in sana, yemen.

march 26th 2012