© Unknown photographer, 1970s, Argentina
A woman lays dead on the side of the road after the car she was in was shot by right-wing paramilitary forces known as Triple A (Argentine Anti-communist Alliance) on the outskirts of La Plata, Argentina.
In 1975, the right-wing dictatorships of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay embarked on a military plan called Operation Condor. The mission was to eliminate opponents to the regimes. Many of the victims came to be known as the “Disappeared,” because the government would simply make its detractors vanish.
It’s estimated that at least 60,000 people died as a result of Operation Condor. From the Amazon jungle in Brazil to the cold lands of Patagonia, thousands of victims were placed in unmarked graves, while others were thrown alive into the ocean from airplanes. (read more)
TIANANMEN SQUARE PROTESTS IN 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China’s political leadership.
The protests were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country’s capital. The crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted thousands of casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance on Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
The scale of military mobilization and the resulting bloodshed were unprecedented in the history of Beijing, a city with a rich tradition of popular protests in the 20th century. (+)
IMAGE INFO:
#1: Stuart Franklin
#2: Jeff Widener
#3: Unknown photographer
This day in history:
A lone, unknown man, referred to by many simply as “Tank Man” stands in front of a column of Army tanks in Beijing the day after the Chinese government’s violent crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square.
The identity of the man and what became of him are still a mystery to this day.
June 5, 1989 - 24 years ago today
(thanks to / via: picturesofwar)
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© Hannalog, May 31, 2013, Early Afternoon, Istanbul, Turkey
As news coverage on the protests in Istanbul is really poor (at least here in Europe) I present some insight pictures, taken by my friend Hanna.
police attacks protestors on taksim square and then starts to chase us away from istiklal caddesi / taksim area with gaz bombs and water cannons .
(thanks to / photos by: pira-tin)
THE SENSELESS/NAMELESS SET - Part 6
The Art of Protest
Two photographs. No (?) connection. Welcome to senseless/nameless sets.
Photo #1 is by far the most dull protest photograph I’ve seen in quite some time. If I didn’t know better I would’ve thought that they protested against increasing chewing gum or maybe cigarette prices, or something like that. Anyways, protests are good, like in photo #2.
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.” (probably by Karl Marx)
Ok, to be serious: to create an atmosphere within a country that a) allows peaceful protests as in photo #1 and b) taking the matters of protesters serious, that’s what it’s all about I guess. But I’m just dreaming again…
IMAGE INFO:
#1: Mondadori / Getty, May 30, 1968, Protests in Paris:
On May 30 1968, almost 500,000 protesters marched through Paris chanting, ‘Adieu, de Gaulle!’. At 2.30pm, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou persuaded President Charles de Gaulle to dissolve the National Assembly and to call a new election, thereby ending the immediate threat of revolution. CAPTION: “Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the Franco-German agitator and student of Sociology at the Narbonne University (today: Co-president of the European Greens), with protestors who are shouting slogans during a demonstration in Paris.” (+)
#2: Paul Schutzer, 1958, Demonstrators attacking Richard M. Nixon in his car, Caracas, Venezuela
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© Gökşin Sipahioğlu, May 6, 1968, May Protest, Boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris
1,045 civilians were injured during “le mois des Barricades” (“the month of the Barricades”). You can find more photos here.
Thanks to my friend Eliot for the link! This picture reminds me of a photo of a miner’s strike near Sheffield I just posted recently, you can find it here. The major difference is the police-protesters-ratio.
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© Catherine Henriette / AFP / Getty Images, May 18, 1989, Tiananmen Square
Students from Beijing University stage a huge demonstration in Tiananmen Square as they start an unlimited hunger strike as the part of mass pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government.
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© John Sturrock, May 1984, Miners Strike 1984/85
Police charge pickets at Orgreave coke works, near Sheffield.
The UK miners’ strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trade union movement. It was also seen as a major political victory for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party.
The strike became a symbolic struggle, as the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was one of the strongest unions in the country, viewed by many, including Conservatives in power, as having brought down the Heath government in the union’s 1974 strike.
The later strike ended with the miners’ defeat and the Thatcher government able to consolidate its fiscally conservative programme. The political power of the NUM was broken permanently. Three deaths resulted from events around the strike: two picketers and a taxi driver taking a non-striking miner to work. (+)
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© Reed Brockway Bontecou / Collection Stanley B Burns, MD, June 21, 1865, Union Private John Parmenter under anaesthesia
The surgeon has just amputated the soldier’s wounded foot to save his life.
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Unknown photographer, ca. 1901-1905, Gromoboi
“Gromoboi” was an armoured cruiser of the Russian fleet that took part in the Russo-Japanese War and WWI. It was built in St. Petersburg under the improved project of the cruiser “Russia”. Its construction began in 1898, the cruiser was put into service in 1900. (more pictures and info here)
© Yoko Ono, 1969, “War Is Over!”, Billboard at Times Square, New York
The terrible Vietnam War ended 38 years ago today.
On 30 April 1975, Vietnamese People’s Army troops entered the city of Saigon and quickly overcame all resistance, capturing key buildings and installations. A tank from the 324th Division crashed through the gates of the Independence Palace at 11:30 am local time and the Vietcong flag was raised above it. President Duong Van Minh, who had succeeded Huong two days earlier, surrendered.
In the early morning hours of 30 April, the last US Marines evacuated the embassy by helicopter, as civilians swamped the perimeter and poured into the grounds. Many of them had been employed by the Americans and were left to their fate. (+)
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