Five extraordinarily powerful pictures that jolted humanity

LAHORE (Ali Zain) – These days everyone is discussing the picture of a 5-year-old Syrian boy who was luckily pulled from the rubble of a...

LAHORE (Ali Zain) – These days everyone is discussing the picture of a 5-year-old Syrian boy who was luckily pulled from the rubble of a hospital in Aleppo following an airstrike which had demolished the building.

Photojournalist Mahmoud Raslan, who captured the iconic picture, said that the boy was named Omran Daqnee. He rescued along with his siblings and parents from the damaged building on August 17, 2016.

The powerful photograph is being circulated online to highlight to the plight of Syrians amid the unstoppable ongoing war among the rebels, President Bashar al-Asad, the Islamic State militant group and the world powers.

This is not the first time when an extraordinary picture has become so impactful. Last year, as well, the picture of the dead body of Syrian boy Alan Kurdi – initially reported as Aylan Kurdi – had jolted the whole world.

The strongest image of 3-year-old Syrian boy which showed his body lying on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey, was captured by Dogan News Agency’s Nilufer Demir.

Another picture titled “The vulture and the little girl” shocked the global community on March 26, 1993. It showed a little girl while struggling to reach a nearby United Nations feeding center, while a vulture had landed just behind her.

On June 8,1972, Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took a picture of Kim Phuc, showing the 9-year-old naked girl yelling and running away from her village napalm-bombed by American Army near Saigon, South Vietnam.

The New York Times initially hesitated to consider publishing the picture due to nudity, however, it was later allowed.

The picture of two brothers, one carrying other’s dead body, on his shoulders to the cemetery, caught the attention of the world in 1945. It was captured near Nagasaki, just days after the US had dropped nuclear bomb on the Japanese city.

Joe O’Donnell took the photo when he was sent to Nagasaki by the US military officials to record the damages caused by the atom bomb. He witnessed the devastating conditions on the ground during the seven-month-long stay in Japan.

The iconic picture was termed as the most horrific one by the people after it was published after the World War II ended.