A Japanese soldier with the severed head of a Chinese civilian in Nanking in January 1938.
Severely emaciated Union soldier Phillip Hattle. He was held captive at Andersonville POW camp and died from mistreatment on June 26, 1865.
Cemetery for American marines and sailors killed during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
Palestinian teen Mohammed Tamimi in 2018. He underwent surgery to remove a rubber-coated steel bullet lodged in his brain fired by an IDF soldier. Israel denied responsibility for his injury.
Palestinian students study inside their damaged classroom in al-Sheiaeiya neighborhood east of Gaza City, after seven weeks of Israeli bombardment in 2014.
Fang Zheng with their legs crushed by a Chinese tank during the Tiananmen Square. It remains one of the most heavily censored events in modern Chinese history.
Sgt. Merlin German—“The Miracle Marine”—at a promotion ceremony in 2007. An IED explosion burned 97% of his body in 2005, but he survived that and over 100 surgeries. Unfortunately, German died from a minor skin graft surgery for his lips in 2008.
Very naked sex
Otto Warmbier begging for mercy as he was on trial for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster in North Korea. He returned to the US with irreversible brain damage, dying six days later.
American soldiers forcing Sudenten Germans from Volary to view Jewish victims. Although most Germans were unaware of the extent of the camp system, knowledge of atrocities against Jews, Slavs, etc. was widespread.
X-ray of murder victim Chen Lui whose body was discovered wrapped in plastic in Sydney, Australia in 2008, revealing he was shot 34 times with a nail gun. His case is still unsolved.
Twelve year old Polish girl Kazimiera Mika kneels over her older sister Anna, who was gunned down by a German fighter plane
A Polish mother cries as she holds her dead child in the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of the Nazi ghettos.
A trench line filled with the corpses of German soldiers near Champagne, France in 1915.
A severely emaciated Union soldier who survived the infamous Confederate Andersonville prison camp where about 13,000 POWs died.
A Japanese soldier beheads a Chinese POW after the capture of Nanking in 1937.
This is Ismael Hadi, a homeless man from Yemen, who was known for feeding stray dogs. He was found dead this morning with the dogs refusing to leave his side.
A daughter documents her parents in a photo essay as they battle cancer simultaneously (xpost from /r/jessicamshannon)
This, and two other incidents of tear gas canisters that found their way into protestors’ brains today in Baghdad after just a few hours of protests, i will be posting more of this stuff cuz I’m not seeing any attention for it in reddit
When the Australian bushfires get too close to you, the RFS send an emergency message explaining that "it's too late to leave"
Guy who killed his mom and friend just made a final Facebook status while on the run 2 hours ago.
None of the pictures posted of tieniman square ever show the reality of that event, this is what the Chinese government really did
About a year ago, a co-worker of mine suddenly died one month after his wedding. This is a post from his wife.
September 11, 2001 there was one American in space. This is the picture he took from the International Space Station
