Thích Quảng Đức a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963, as a protest against persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

The image shows a burned-beyond-recognition Iraqi soldier in the front window of a destroyed truck.

One of the victims of the world’s worst ever industrial disaster known as Bhopal gas tragedy, took place at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal on December 3, 1984.The plant released (MIC) gas and other toxins, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people.

Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture nearby. It is quite obvious that the child was starving to death, while the vulture was patiently waiting for the toddler to die so he can have a good meal. Nobody knows what happened to the child, who crawled his way to a United Nations food camp. Photographer Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for this shocking picture, but he eventually committed suicide three months after he took the shot.