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jtaimejadore: Oil on canvas The Eunuch by Raipun
jtaimejadore: livercake: halloween costume of a lifetime via i.imgur.com
 
simply-war: Armenian orphans are seen in this undated handout photo taken by John Elder as he travelled throughout Armenian populated regions between 1917 and 1919.
simply-war: A child mutilated by the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) in Uganda. 
simply-war: Survivors gaze at photographer Margaret Bourke-White and at their rescuers from the United States Third Army during the liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945.
simply-war: December 16, 1989 . Protests erupt in the streets of Timisoara in Romania against food shortages and the dictatorship of Nicholai Ceausescu. The uprising ends with the communist dictator to be executed a week later. After the storm, Western journalists were invited to contemplate the ‘deeds’ of the regime. Dozens of mass graves in Timisoara were emptied for the identification of bodies. In one, the photographer Robert Mass captured the infinite sorrow of a man.
simply-war: Contra (a label given to the various rebels who opposed Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front) mortally wounded in jungle warfare. 1984. Photography by; James Nachtwey.
simply-war: The burnt body of a Russian soldier incinerated in a BMP-60 armoured personnel carrier. First Chechen War. Grozny, Russia. January 07, 1995. © Nigel Chandler/Sygma/Corbis
simply-war: A pro war supporter holding a sign reading “Kill an Iraqi for Christ,” jeers at anti war demonstrators marching against the Gulf War in Iraq. February 21, 1991. © Andrew Holbrooke One of the only pictures on my blog that actually made me tear up a little…An American life = An Iraqi life. A human life is a human life.
simply-war: A man kisses his brother in the morgue of Bahrain’s Central hospital. The man was shot with a pellet gun by Bahraini police in February, 2011. Photography by; Andrea Bruce
simply-war: An Iraqi man holds a child killed in a shooting while the family was on the way to the town of Baquba, about 30 km north of Baghdad, November 21, 2005.  Witnesses and Iraqi police claimed that US troops had fired into a crowded minibus, killing 5 members of the same family and wounding 4 others.  Photo: Reuters/Hilmi