the Vietnamese general "Nguyen Luan"

In 1961, the photographer of the Sobchad agency "Eddie Adams" took a picture of the Vietnamese general "Nguyen Luan" and killed the leader of the Vetukenge

After the end of the Vietnam War, General Nguyen Luan was taken to hospital for treatment at an Australian hospital. The hospital refused to receive him because of the photograph. He was transferred to the United States and there was a large campaign to expel him. Of the country.

When the general settled in Virginia and opened a restaurant where people wrote hostile words to him on the walls of his restaurant, the most prominent was "Get out of here, we know who you are".

All this happened because of the picture that was taken to the General during the execution of the leader of the Vetokenge revenge faction .. But did you know the events that preceded the killing of the leader of the revenge?

The leader of the revenge group had committed his massacre of a number of unarmed civilians, where he killed them all .. But because the killing of civilians was not imagined, everyone sympathizes with the process of execution because of this picture.

And this story was one of the most famous stories that show the role of flags in changing the views of many people and create a public opinion in a certain direction by a simple pressure on the camera .. All of the people saw the image sympathized with the leader of the revenge group and they have a hatred of General "Najin Luan" but No one asked why the man was killed or what he did, whether it is worth killing or not. Everyone saw the picture, but no one asked what happened before the moment of its conception.

Eddie Adams has apologized to the general and told a newspaper (the general killed the Vietcongi with his gun once and I killed the general with my cameras several times)

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I translated the article from Arabic to English from a group in Facebook called : فضاء المطالعة و ويكيبيديا الجزائر

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