In the morning September 11, 2001, two hijacked passenger jets crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. This was no accident, but rather a series of attacks done by suicide bombers engaged with the Al-Qaeda terrorist group.
The
attacks killed all the passengers on board the hijacked planes, and
took away 2,974 innocent lives at the World Trade Center. More than 90
countries lost citizens in the attack, and the stock market was closed
for a week.
Peristiwa
11 September 2001, serangan 2 pesawat terhadap menara kembar WTC,
mengguncang dunia karena menewaskan hingga 2974 orang
Beginning in 2004, accounts of physical, psychological, and sexual
abuse, including torture, rape, sodomy, and homicide of prisoners held
in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also known as Baghdad Correctional
Facility) came to public attention. These acts were committed by
personnel of the 372nd Military Police Company of the United States
Army together with additional US governmental agencies.
Penyiksaan
terhadap tahanan di Penjara Abu Grhaib-Irak oleh tentara Amerika dan
sekutunya. Penyiksaan meliputi siksaan fisik,siksaan mental psikologis,
pelecehan seksual, pemerkosaan dan sodomi terhadap tahanan.
Foto seorang bocah pengungsi Afganistan, saat tengah berlindung dari badai pasir.
More than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate spilled from a Union
Carbide-owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing more
than 20,000 people in the world’s worst chemical disaster.
After
the spill, these skulls were researched, presumably for the specific
effects the gas had on the brain, at the nearby Hamidia Hospital.
Thechemical injured not only the people who inhaled it, but also nearby
animals (at least 2,000 of them) and trees, whose leaves went yellow
and fell off within days.
Twenty-five
years later, with people still claiming injury from the disaster yet
little corrective action having been taken, the government of India has
called for a study into the long-term effects of the spill.
lebih
dari 40 Ton bahan kimia berbahaya, Methil-Isocyanate yang terbebas dari
sebuah pabrik pembuatan Pestisida milik Amerika Union-Carbide, di
Bhipal-India pada tahun 1984, membunuh hingga 20.000 orang.
When the Igbos of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in
1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years
of war, more than one million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine,
children who lack protein often get the disease kwashiorkor, which
causes their muscles to waste away and their bellies to protrude.
On July 22, 1975, Stanley J. Forman was working in the newsroom of the
Boston Herald American newspaper when a police scanner picked up an
emergency: Fire on Marlborough Street! Forman rushed to the scene,
where multiple fire crews were battling an intense blaze. There was a
distress call for a ladder team to the rear of the building to help a
stranded woman and child. Forman followed.
In 1937, the Nazis constructed Buchenwald concentration camp, near
Weimar, Germany. Placed over the camp main entrance gate, was the
slogan Jedem das Seine (literally œto each his own, but figuratively
“everyone gets what he deserves�). The Nazis used Buchenwald until
the camp’s liberation in 1945. From 1945 to 1950, the Soviet Union
used the occupied camp as an NKVD special camp for Nazis and other
Germans. On 6 January 1950, the Soviets handed over Buchenwald to the
East German Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The
SS left behind accounts of the number of prisoners and people coming to
and leaving the camp, categorizing those leaving them by release,
transfer, or death. These accounts are one of the sources of estimates
for the number of deaths in Buchenwald. According to SS documents,
33,462 died in Buchenwald. These documents were not, however,
necessarily accurate: Among those executed before 1944 many were listed
as “transferred to the Gestapo�. Furthermore, from 1941 forward
Soviet POWs were executed in mass killings. Arriving prisoners selected
for execution were not entered into the camp register and therefore
were not among the 33,462 dead listed in SS documents.
Burial of an unknown child. This picture shows the world’s worst
industrial disaster, caused by the US multinational chemical company,
Union Carbide.
Ini
adalah kuburan dari seorang anak kecil di Bophal-India. Ini masih ada
hubungannya dengan peristiwa kebocoran Bahan Kimia terburuk sepanjang
masa yang diakibatkan oleh pabrik Pestisida milik Amerika
Union-Carbidge.
As a protest to the This Monk slow and unreliable reforms in Vietnam,
the Buddhist monks have resorted to immolation, such as this Mahayana
Buddhist monk, He burned himself alive across the outskirts of Saigon,
mainly because of the harshness done by the South Vietnam government to
his fellow Buddhist monks.
He
was re-cremated after he burned himself; his heart meanwhile remained
in one piece, and because of this he was regarded as a Bodhisattva by
the other Buddhist monks and followers. His act of self-immolation
increased the pressure on the Di?m administration to implement their
reform laws in South Vietnam.
Sebagai
bentuk protes terhadap reformasi di Vietnam yang tidak berjalan dengan
baik, seorang Biksu rela membakar dirinya sendiri dihadapan umum.
This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer prize with
it. The picture shows Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police
chief executing a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain. Once
again the public opinion was turned against the war.
Hector Pieterson an icon of 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South
Africa. Dying Hector being carried by a fellow student. He was killed
at the age of 12 when the police opened fire on protesting students.
For years, June 16 stood as a symbol of resistance to the brutality of
the apartheid government. Today, it is known as National Youth Day –
a day on which South Africans honour young people and bring attention
to their needs.
Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on
the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa, it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe
D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass
grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and
its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.
This is a famous picture, taken in 1930, showing the young black men
accused of raping a Caucasian woman and killing her boyfriend, hanged
by a mob of 10,000 white men. The mob took them by force from the
county jail house. Another black man was left behind and ended up being
saved from lynching. Even if lynching photos were designed to boost
white supremacy, the tortured bodies and grotesquely happy crowds ended
up revolting many.
This is the picture of the “mushroom cloud� showing the enormous
quantity of energy. The first atomic bomb was released on August 6 in
Hiroshima (Japan) and killed about 80,000 people. On August 9 another
bomb was released above Nagasaki. The effects of the second bomb were
even more devastating – 150,000 people were killed or injured. But
the powerful wind, the extremely high temperature and radiation caused
enormous long term damage.
Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture nearby. It is quite obvious
that the child was starving to death, while the vulture was patiently
waiting for the toddler to die so he can have a good meal.
Nobody
knows what happened to the child, who crawled his way to a United
Nations food camp. Photographer Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for
this shocking picture, but he eventually committed suicide three months
after he took the shot.
Seorang
anak kecil Sudan, tengah menderita karena kelaparan. Sementara,
dibelakangnya, menunggu seekor burung pemakain bangkai, yang
seolah-olah sudah siap menyantap anak tersebut jika ia sudah mati.
Tidak ada yang tau, apa kemudian yang terjadi pada anak itu, bahkan si
Fotgrafer sendiri.
Foto
yang sangat terkenal, diambil oleh seorang Fotografer asal Amerika,
Kevin Carter. Foto ini memenangkan penghargaan Jurnalis
bergengsi-Pulitzer.
Images from the video footage of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah being
shot dead in the Gaza Strip. The scene was filmed by a France 2
cameraman.
Ini adalah gambar, dari sebuah Video yang diambil oleh wartawan asal Prancis. Gambar ini menunjukkan seorang anak berusia 12 tahun, bernama Muhammad al Durrah yang tengah berusaha berlindung dari serangan tembakan tentara Israel di sebuah jalanan di Gaza. Meski sang ayah sudah melindunginya, tapi al Durrah tetap tewas tertembak.
Ini adalah gambar, dari sebuah Video yang diambil oleh wartawan asal Prancis. Gambar ini menunjukkan seorang anak berusia 12 tahun, bernama Muhammad al Durrah yang tengah berusaha berlindung dari serangan tembakan tentara Israel di sebuah jalanan di Gaza. Meski sang ayah sudah melindunginya, tapi al Durrah tetap tewas tertembak.
World Press Photo of the Year: 1976 Françoise Demulder, France, Gamma.
Beirut, Lebanon, January 1976. Palestinian refugees in the district La
Quarantaine. About the image She was the first woman to win the World
Press Photo, and did so on the 20th anniversary of the award. Demulder
stated at the time that she hated war, but felt compelled to document
how it’s always the innocent who suffer, while the powerful get
richer and richer.
Indonesia is home to the world’s third largest tropical forest, but
it’s disappearing quickly. Though often illegal, the forests are cut
down both for a booming pulp and paper industry as well as to clear
land for oil palm plantations, which supply diverse industries from
biofuel to soap to cosmetics.
Because
of deforestation, Indonesia is also the world’s third largest
greenhouse gas contributor, behind only the U.S. and China; after the
forest is cut down, the carbon normally sequestered in the peatland
soil is no longer shielded from being released into the atmosphere.
Indonesia
adalah tempat bagi Hutan Tropis terbesar di Dunia. Tapi, hutan tropis
Indonesia semakin lama semakin gundul. Baik yang dibabat secara legal,
maupun illegal. Hutan tropis Indonesia sebagian besar digunduli, lalu
ditanami pohon penghasil bahan baku kertas dan minyak kelapa sawit.
Kegiatan ini dinamai Deforestasion.
Karena Deforestation ini, Indonesia menjadi negara terbesar ketiga di Dunia, penghasil gas rumah kaca setelah Amerika dan China.
China’s economy has exploded in recent years; so has its pollution
problem, leaving no aspect of the country’s environment unaffected.
Solid waste often lacks proper disposal, waterways have been polluted,
and the air quality has plummeted, largely due to the coal-fired power
plants that serve as the country’s primary source of energy.
Environmental
degradation has gotten so bad that the Chinese government, which
doesn’t easily take-or allow-criticism, has admitted that birth defects
in the country have increased as a direct result of it, particularly in
coal-producing regions like the north, where this picture was taken.
Perkembangan
Ekonomi China memang sangat pesat dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Dan
perkembangan ini, tentunya juga didukung oleh ketersediaan Energi yang
mencukupi. Tapi sayangnya, energi itu sebagian besar berasal dari
Sumber Daya Alam yang tidak dapat diperbaharui seperti Minyak dan Batu
bara. Dan juga, menghasilkan polusi yang teramat buruk bagi dunia.
Foto yang cukup ironis, awan polusi yang berdampingan dengan tiang-tiang penyambung listrik.
A segregated water fountain with a vastly larger and more desirable fountain for whites, and a small fountain for minorities.
Saya
tidak tau, dari mana asal foto ini. Tapi ini adalah sebuah tindakan
Rasis, dimana Wastafel yang biasa digunakan untuk minum, dibedakan
dalam pembuatan dan tujuannya. Yang sebelah kiri adalah untuk bangsa
kulit putih, dan sebelah kanan untuk orang kulit hitam.
World Press Photo of the Year: 1980 Mike Wells, United Kingdom.
Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980. Starving boy and a missionary.
About the image Wells felt indignant that the same publication that sat
on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were
dying, entered it into a competition. He was embarrassed to win as he
never entered the competition himself, and was against winning prizes
with pictures of people starving to death.
Tangan
hitam itu, adalah tangan seorang anak yang kelaparan di Uganda. Foto
ini diambil pada bulan April 1980 oleh Mike Wells. Bahkan foto ini
mendapat penghargaan, dan Mike mendapat hadiah.
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