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BY NÀDIA
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Imagine you walking through the streets of your city and suddenly being blinded by the flashlight of a riffle, or hearing the loudy noise of a bomb crashing into a house of your neighbourhood. Those are some of the horrible things innocent people have to endure during a war. And why do we know that? Because of pictures, articles, documentaries taken by photojournalists; Some of them are really shocking. Like the picture taken by Eddie Adams named “Saigon Execution”.
Without any context the picture could look like the person is aiming at an innocent prisioner, but the story is quite diferent. The man with the gun is Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, a vietnamit soldier, and the other man is Nguyen Van Lem who was lider of a band of murderers who killed soldiers and their families. One day Lem headed to Saigon to kill officers and their loved ones .Loan, catches the murderer and decides to take justice by his hand shooting a gun on his head. The image shows a Vietnamise man aimaing at another man; they may belong
into to different political groups. The victim of the attack’a face looks injured and in pain. Behind this two people we can see a city in debris and a strange shadow on the floor. It could be a corpse; the person may have been killed by the same man just before this image. Just next to the man with the gun we can see a man dressed with the army uniform; that makes me believe that the people who are shooting this person may be soldiers, ans the victim in question could truly be a bad man so they’re triying to reduce him.
I think this image teaches us a great lesson that not everything is what it seems to be, hut most importantly: even if this theory is true, and the “victim” isn’t it, there’s no way to stop violence with more violence. That reminds me of a Spanish sentence wich says: “you can’t fight fire with fire”