The photo is part of The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) showing how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.
![The plight of Kosovo refugees [1999]](http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/kosovo_refugee.jpg)
Photographer: Carol Guzy
Source: washingtonpost.com
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sarah says:
check this out
Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 5:54 am"
jeff says:
It would be a better picture if it didn’t look like a painting for christ sakes. Enough with the color saturation…Where is the reality in this photo? It lacks soul…
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 am"
Zlatan Vrabac says:
I have never seen this one before. Why don’t you that picture with the highway full of Serb refugees from Croatia, I think it is better known then this one.
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 7:22 pm"
Edin says:
Zlatan,
the reason they don’t have it is because there would be NO POINT in showing the suffering of the aggresors.
Friday, October 5th, 2007 at 6:39 pm"
Zlatan Vrabac says:
Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian Muslim and Albanian militias attacked Yugoslav troops first. The Serb minorities within Croatia and Bosnia were defending themselves (even though they went on the offensive) and Kosovo war was the result of Albanian KLA attacking Serb civilians and government officials.
Saturday, October 6th, 2007 at 7:11 pm"
Zlatan Vrabac says:
And there really is no such thing as an “aggressor†in a civil war.
Saturday, October 6th, 2007 at 7:12 pm"
Truthonaut says:
Zlatan: Agree with you. The Zionist press has never shown the true story and paints the victim as the agressor- just like it is doing Re Iran.
Even further back- Has anyone seen the pictures of the thousands of German civillians killed by Poles long BEFORE Hitler invaded?
I have some of these, and know that were these modern pictures of American civillians slaughtered by Poles, the US population would- like the German one did-for war against Poland, and Poland would be a smoking ruin within 3 days.
I am sick of the consistent lies and hypocracy. The world is far different to what most people imagine. The answer- seek out the truth for yourself- whatever they tell you to think.
Identify the ones who do the lying and don’t believe anything they tell you.
Despite yourself you realy do know who THEY are, even though THEY have made it semi illegal to say so.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 at 6:38 am"
BARBRA BUSH says:
THIS IS AN INTELLECTUAL PHOTOGRAPH IT’S JUST SUPERB!!!!
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 1:53 pm"
SATHORY ABUL-GADAR says:
i LOVE THiS iTS JUST THE BEST DARN PiCTURE i’VE EVER SEEN THE BABY iS THE GUTEST AND iN THIS 1 SMALL CAPTiON iT TELL SO MUCH
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 1:55 pm"
Irish Matt says:
What are half you morons yapping on about, seriously, accept the photograph for what it symbolizes, unity in the face of oppression. Quit going on about such and such started this etc.
It’s simply the innocence of a child caught up in something it had nothing to do with, there’s nothing more beautiful than the innocence of a child and nothing more tragic than a child having war amongst other things being thrust upon it.
Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 3:20 am"
MatthewGraywolf says:
the bottom line is survival, these people are trying to stay alive ; keep their family existing. A cheap art class critique is not deserving, nor is the political B.S. The photo is wonderful and does what great photos are meant to do capture a moment in the past and portray that moment, that instance,era,emotion to those that are lucky enough to open themselves to it.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 5:24 am"
mdavis says:
so sad
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 9:47 am"
eni says:
i cannot stand stupid people saying stupid things. i am speaking to you serb. i would suggest you to bag the pardon of god for what you’ve done around you insteand of opening your mouth and lie. don’t you ask yourself sometimes how come nobody loves serbs? shame on you
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 at 6:10 am"
kid from kerns class says:
I wonder if there still alive?
Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 9:36 pm"
Lirija Denise MaCK says:
omg that is so sad that kid is so confused but he looks like he is havin fun, lol, no thas sad i know i was a refugee once, is no game man, it sucks, now i am in the usa ! its cool, i miss it tho, so yea nice pic
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 at 3:55 am"
Deepak Khatri says:
It really shows that how a human can behave at his limit.
that picture prove that human has no limit to cross
deepak
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am"
Ash says:
this a a great pic. it defines the value of family & how we can survive, the baby is just showing us how we don’t care what happens during war, the lives we can affect, the tragedy we impose upon the innocent. I hope we all learn something
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm"
babygiirl says:
wonderful parenting
Saturday, June 7th, 2008 at 3:25 pm"
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