On the Receiving Side

Twenty year old Abdi Hassan, a nomadic camel herder was beaten to a point of paralysis by al-Shabaab soldiers when he refused to allow them to take some of his camels as a tax. He fled Salagale by road with his wife and other relatives to Ifo Camp. He has been in the hospital since arriving in Kenya. #

(Source: thepeacefulterrorist)

este-o-este:

Bardera, Somalia. 1992 - Mother lifts up the body of her child, a famine victim, to bring it to the grave

ghazalaa:

Family in an Afghan refugee camp

(via throughthethickandthin)

life:

50 extraordinary photographs that quite literally brought war — every war — home to millions of Americans.

In this Eddie Adams’ now-legendary picture of South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the casual brutality of the act shocked viewers around the world — and called into question America’s alliance with a military force for which summary execution seemed a matter of little consequence.

(see more — 50 Photos That Brought War Home)

simply-war:

Asan Bibi ,9, (R) and her sister Salima,13, (L) stand in the hallway of Mirwais hospital, both burn vctims when a helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night on October 3rd, according to their father Kandahar, Afghanistan. 

(via throughthethickandthin)

earlyfrost:

A small boy holds his younger brother and looks at the remains of what was once his village, Tha Son in South Vietnam.

(Source: h8rr, via madeinthenineties)

carpee-diem:

This is Humanity at its strongest. 

“An elderly man brought children to see the medics.”

(Source: carpee-omnious, via throughthethickandthin)

I finished watching My Asian Heart. It left me with tear stained cheeks and a broken heart. Just knowing that there are still hundreds of Hmong people being hunted in the Jungles of Laos makes my heart ache. Especially knowing that it could have been me there. I could be one of those people paying the price of war. I could one of those who have died.

My Asian Heart, I haven’t gotten the chance to watch this film, but it’s on my to do list.

“What the point of having any news at all if people aren’t actually going to listen to it? We left them (Hmong people) with such a hope. Maybe that was the cruelest thing to do.” -Philip Blenkinsop