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Loading ...This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer price 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.
During the Fall of Saigon, Nguyen left Vietnam in 1975. He moved to Virginia and opened a pizza restaurant, but he had to give it up after his past had been disclosed to the public in 1991, with one patron writing “we know who you are” on a door in his restaurant. He died of cancer on July 14, 1998 in Burke, Virginia, a Washington, D.C., suburb.
Photographer: Eddie Adams
Source: life.com
The description of this photo is horribly lacking.
the Vietnam police chief who executed the viet cong captain did so because the victim murdered many civilians. The poliece chief himself was a good man, who advocated for hospitals and was seen as a hero in vietnam.
Loan fled to the U.S. to escape communist rule. Once there, the tragedies that he faced were primarily enabled because of a poor representation of the context surrounding the photo.
Much like what this page is doing.
Eddie Adams regretted taking this photo up until his death, and once said:
“The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths … “
war is truely hell
thanx Tiant, included
link to the video of this execution: http://youtube.com/watch?v=z13TOKujR9s
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Does anyone have a link to the video of this execution? I have seen it before