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Posted on July 14, 2008 - Total Views 62282
When the Igbos of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in 1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years of war, more than one million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine, children who lack protein often get the disease kwashiorkor, which causes their muscles to waste away and their bellies to protrude. War photographer Don McCullin drew attention to the tragedy. “I was devastated by the sight of 900 children living in one camp in utter squalor at the point of death,” he said. “I lost all interest in photographing soldiers in action.” The world community intervened to help Biafra, and learned key lessons about dealing with massive hunger exacerbated by war-a problem that still defies simple solutions.
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Tags : 1969 • Bellies • Don Mccullin • Eastern Nigeria • Famine • Fledgling Country • Hunger • Kwashiorkor • Muscles • One Million • Point Of Death • Protein • Simple Solutions • Soldiers In Action • Squalor • Tragedy • War Photographer
August 26th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
^ur a ****
August 26th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I love the website, but there are many factual errors in the descriptions of the photographs.
And, as a side note, the Admin should really look into cleaning out comments that are rude, obscene, or simply do not reflect kindly on the website.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
for the last time people… welcome to the internet
August 27th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Just because this is the internet, that doesn’t excuse people from the type of comments that you wouldn’t say in front of your own mother. Just because you’re anonymous, doesn’t mean you need to act like an uneducated moron.
That being said, I agree with Nate.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:13 am
:[ This is so sad….
August 27th, 2008 at 8:04 am
To Erika,
Yes. Yes it does.
save the word ‘need’
August 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I have to disagree with you Erika, because the internet includes all people all over the world, and no matter what ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual preference, or other group, there will always be moron making an idiotic comment. Take May, the comment on the top, for example.
Everything becomes full of idiocy if society has interaction with it.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
The Internet Is Serious Business……
August 27th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
@ 1st Anon: Sorry, chief, that won’t be the last time…
August 28th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
What the **** is the internet??
August 29th, 2008 at 10:26 am
lol tor. my namefriend.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
It really kills a piece of my heart. To see this. I work with children… healthy, happy children. No child should EVER experience this kind of torture and pain.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
[...] Biafra [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
There is no need for such atrocities in this world, with so much money being spent on war and the “rich” staying rich! Sad.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
hey, how come that one kid is so white? cant somebody do something ?
September 1st, 2008 at 11:44 pm
them are some knobby knees… bet he’s embarrassed at these fotos now.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
koko friend
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
is this a cigarette ad?
September 4th, 2008 at 12:12 am
If your going to America, bring your own food !!!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
is this little boy an albino? or does he have ghost sickness?
September 4th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
ooops, thats http://www.ghostsickness.com/index/35
September 4th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
ooops, thats http://www.ghostsickness.org/35
September 4th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
ooops, thats http://www.ghoststickness.com.index/
September 4th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
oh well….
September 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
just look at all that kid has eatan he’s fat! but i’d still hit that!
September 6th, 2008 at 1:45 am
u ****** rude americans…yeah i said it…americans…
September 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
this picture is so shcking that i believe i will get off my fat and rude american *** and go to these miserable foreign lands to see if in some small way i can be of service to humanity! Well, maybe not….
September 6th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
well Arm, i see you are coming to realize the futility of creating any sort of change by taking these photos seriously…
September 6th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
las vegas
September 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
nevada
September 8th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Disregard that, I suck *****.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:51 am
This is so sad,
September 11th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Guys, please, lets close this thread. Please clean up the rude comments. “You cant change other person, try to change yourself, its hard enough”.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
your right gobi, this has gone on long enough, when will these people shut the hell up about their brazil and America and britain and other bullshit?
September 13th, 2008 at 2:37 am
awww this is so sad…
*goes back to eating taco bell and watching American Idol*
September 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Hi Guys. I would just like to come out and say that I love the huge **** in and all around my mouth
September 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I LOVe ****
September 25th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
why does that little white boy get to be at the head of the line?
September 30th, 2008 at 10:06 am
The so-called little white boy said “I’m sick a these niggahs.”
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I don’t know which is more depressing:
the pictures on this site
or
the gleeful callousness of the comments from people who only want to showcase their hatred and stupidity.
Humanity deserves its worst fate if it is indeed comprised of people like the sick ***** leaving these comments.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am
i think we should nuke america and the dominant european countries, let the ppl in like romania live, let the tribal africans live, let the south americans and the caribbean live, let the nature loving aussies live, let the crappy plastic toy making asians live, let the warbound middle easterns live, let the islands in polynesia live… just kill the rich american ********…
October 4th, 2008 at 9:32 am
i support iraq… kill america u righteous ppl
October 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am
what the hell…lets take all you jokers about what is happening in this pic and stick you in the position of those children…how the **** would you like starving? stick you asses in african and i hope you starve to death then maybe you would get that pic…how cares if you like the ****…that is irrelivent to this pic…..these kids are dying and all you ******** can talk about is stupid shit…tough some make good points the ***’s should stay off the computer and get a life and a gf or bf and stop sayin you will tap a poor starving lil kid….that is fucked up…have a nice day
October 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am
ohhh and not all americans are bad
October 7th, 2008 at 11:09 am
yes this IS the internet. a forum of free speech. good AND bad. i dont think u guys have thought it through. if u CANT say things that offends other people, its called socialism. THEY thought it through. it became soviet russia, nazi germany, red china.
u cant eat ur cake and have it. choose. there is NO package deal.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
thats right fuckers, this is America, love it or leave it.
October 13th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
i really dont get how sombody can look at this picture,make some ridiculous joke and feel NOTHING!???? how can that be right!??=(
October 13th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
gimmie my name back!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Sad photo.
Us Canadians & folks in the USA are very lucky!
October 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
what an ignorant ******* ^^^ you think black people deserve to starve?? what the hell is wrong with you??
it’s our ancestors fault people like this died so often. **** you, the world doesn’t need people like you…
October 18th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
why didnt the photographer help this kids? Thats disgusting!
October 19th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Lol Is that little boy albino? funny, Doris
October 19th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
the liitle boy that’s naked, has such a bellybutton!
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
This saddens my heart !
October 25th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Come on, the kid is probably albino, what does that have to do with anything?
All I see is that those kids have sticks for legs and bloated stomaches, due to lack of…well, everything.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
sad picture.
p.s lol you people are absolutely retarded.
free speech,
just because you can say *nearly* anything on the internet doesn’t mean you should.
i hate morons, even worse i hate morons on the interent who pull the THIS IS FREE SPEECH card.
intelligent thoughts are free,
moronic, ignorant statements should be taxed.
with a punch in the nuts, and immediate castration.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:24 am
我的天哪
October 29th, 2008 at 3:57 am
上面的，路过~~是不是由东升的博客来的，没什么想法~！
October 30th, 2008 at 4:39 am
This boy is an albino, for you that dont know what is this this search it..
November 5th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Ignorance In many comments above this.Lack of heart in many comments above this.Thoses that made comments in bad taste must have a very low approvel of them selfs,but all will be judged in the end!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
WWJD? “Forgive them, for they know NOT what they do.” Or, do they? satan is alive in America and it is obvious that the rest of the world has both those who love Jesus, and those who love satan, those who know where their mansion is and those who fear there is no mansion at the end of the line.
Why so many people perfectly willing to allow satan to use them like this? I’m talking about the comments. Have you ever asked yourselves what your purpose is in life? If you feel you have no purpose other than to freakishly stomp all over others who are not like you, then what does that say for yourselves? YOU’RE ALL THE SAME! Ignorant, unloved, unappreciated, lost. Know that I am praying for you.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
this is sad.
but the kid behind the white one looks like he’s posing.
*STRIKE A POSE* xD
November 6th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
dese boys was at de seben eleben de udder day!
November 8th, 2008 at 12:09 am
The look on the older child’s face says a lot. It is turning my heart inside out. I just want to reach out & comfort them. That YOUNG PERSON LOOKS SCARED. What a disappointing group of ignorant racist mouth pieces on this site. The real funny thing is the PRESIDENT OF THE U.S is 1/2 black & HE will control the outcome of you & your parents life’s for at least the next 4 years, maybe even 8 years!!!! However, being the kind EDUCATED human being he is!!! Obviously unlike yourself, will probably treat your sorry a$$ better than you just treated these young human beings. They are HUMANS! You are almost too ignorant to comment back to, but the real deal is this site was put here to help people. YOU SORRY A$$ IDIOT!!!!!!!!!! Your talk a lot of sh*t behind the keyboard. You give real Caucasians a bad name you WHITE TRASH!!! Your fat a$$ probably never missed a meal. One thing for sure, thankfully, there are some intelligent Caucasians in the world, BUT YOUR NOT ONE!!!!
November 8th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I be sure de obama will steal de money lik all dat other fellas.
November 9th, 2008 at 12:33 am
this breaks my heart……
November 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
****, piss, shit, screw, ****, ****, ***, quim, snatch, *****, ******, homo martyn.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
why a little white boy with these darkies?
November 15th, 2008 at 8:20 am
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November 17th, 2008 at 2:11 am
AM BLACK JEWISH BIAFRA,WHAT CAN WE DO NOW HOW CAN WE PLANS THINGS MEN ARE TOO WORRY ABOUT THIS,DEAL ,,HELP BIAFRA SAVE THE FUTURE,
November 17th, 2008 at 2:34 am
I STUDY http://WWW.BIAFRAWAR.COM…..,I CRY VERY MUCH BUT I SAY BE’
I SAY TO GOD SHARON PEACE BE A HEBREW,
AM 35YEARS AM NOT THEN BUT I FEEL THE WAR ,FOR THAT HISTOR,
I TELLING ALL THE JEWISH FAMILY ALL OVER THE GLOBLA WORLD TO
HELP AND SAVE THE FUTURE OF JEWISH THERE ,UN,ICA,FBI,JEWISH MILITRY DIRECTOR TO THINK I GO BACK TO HISTORY BOOK FOR JEWISH 1944 WHY 1945 WHY 1949 ABOUT THAT ENGLISH SUPPLY SMART AK47 AND NP39 GUN,IN 1964 TO MAKE SURE THEY KILL ALL JEWSH IN BIAFRA,I ASK WHY ,TELL ALL THE JEWISH,WE STOP THIS NOT TO COME BACK AGAIN,
November 17th, 2008 at 2:45 am
NIGERIA WAR AGRINST BIAFRA,TELL THE WORLD AND OUR JEWISH TO NOTED WE ARE ONE,
TIME TO BIAFRA TO BE FREE,
November 17th, 2008 at 3:31 am
noted in the history we will opeing eye of God to see the door open now, children are crying no help but see hope from from no way
O BIAFRA
O JERUSALEM,
SHARON ESTABLISHED PEACE FOUNTATION FOR STAR OF DAVID,,
LORD FREE YOUR POOR CHILDREN
November 17th, 2008 at 3:34 am
TELL OBAMA TO HELP BIAFRA SUN TO WORLD
November 17th, 2008 at 3:43 am
ABOUT 12000 BIAFRA MEN AND WOMEN ARE IN CHINA DOING NOTTHINGS ,NO WORK FOR THEM
,BUT OIL ARE SELLING EVERYDAYS TO DEAL WHY,PACKING BOOKER MONEY WITH OUT HELPING THE CHILDREN TO SCHOOL TO EAT TO HAVE LIFE,
WHY ONLY KILLING
WHY ONLY KILLING
THEM GOD I HAVE IN THE NIGERIA
NOW GOD HAVE SENT THE ANGELS TO FREE BRAFRA BLOOD KILLING ,,,JERUSALEM
TO JESUS
November 17th, 2008 at 4:17 am
SEE I DO NOT HAVE WORD TO THANK THEM
FUTURE HISTORY SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT PLAN BY C/O ABLAN BLACK JEWISH,
@?OFFER@ SEE TELL THE JEWISH FOUNDATION TO DO SOME THINGS NOW,,GAMAN Z?/00 MORE THAN 6M JEWISH WAS KILLED IN 1943 AFTER ANOTHER WAR FROM NIGERIA UNNOBLA MORE THEN 12M WAS AGAIN BY NIGERIA ARMY IN 1966 OFFER@?JEWISH YOU DEAL NOW, TO ASK WHY KNOW?AIRPART SEAPART,FOUNDATION JOB FOR WORKER AND EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE ,BIG PROJECT OFFER FOR MEN .HISTORY WILL OPEN NOW
November 17th, 2008 at 4:29 am
NOTED FOR HIGH MASTER P OBAMA AND UN AND JEWISH MILITARY SIDS ALL THE WORLD KNOW THAT BIG DEAL IS GOING ON IN NIGERIA KILLING,ONLY FOR OIL POWER,
FUTURE ARE KILLING NO PEACE WHY BIAFRA ARE KILLING OBAMA TO OORDER TO HELP TRY AND DO IT JOB MAKE BIAFRA STATER OUT FROM NIGERIA POWER IN PEACE WILL COME BACK AGAIN IN THE WORLD ,,,,HIGH MASTER PLS OBAMA TO DEAL TO FREE THE WORLD ,
November 17th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
an yer all fagboys too! (really its me, martyn)
November 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint; When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:21 am
oh my god those creatures are disgusting…im glad they are starving to death the are wastes of creation and should all fuckingg starve.
dirty, nasty, vile, peices of escriment
November 20th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I am de biafran, i be de future
November 21st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
It really touched my heart.So sad
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
OMFG IS THAT A GHOST?!
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
To ignorant ******** and americans out there, who have nothing better to do except make stupid comments and sit in their homes and bask in their bounty because they have no real understand of what it means to suffer. You f**king idiots have no shame, I feel no pride in living America, I spit on her name. You have no idea how what these children saw or the tribulations that they endured. Continue being ignorant, and suck a f**king egg; their memory will forever live in my heart, I’m dedicating my life to fighting for those who have no say, who live in pure destitution, no one deserves to go through something like that, and they are worthy to be called ‘brave’. These children…are children of God, and I know that they are in better places now-whether that be in life or in death.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
this poor children, never knowing the word of god or accepting the merciful lord jesus into their hearts, they will go to hell and burn in misery. Please learn from this lesson, teach your children about Jesus, teach them not to worship demons in the shpe of ancestors and animal spirits. Only Jesus can save these children, if only they had known to call on him their souls would be safe in his arms. BVetter to die with His great name on your lips than live as a sinner.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
PATHETIC NIGERS
I CAN GUARANTEE THAT IF ALL THE NIGER COUNTRIES WERE WHITE
THEY WOULD BE SUPERPOWERS
and you ALL know that’s true
December 7th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
HAHAH the one all the way in the corner is jacking off
December 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
No matter what color a starving child is or which country a child is from/in, it’s unnecessary and horrible.These comment boards are so often full of idiots who want to see their thioughts in writing upon hitting the ‘refresh’ button.
In California, there are food kitchens and donation centers for hungry families 365 days out of the year.Even in the midst of the greatest food producing farming area on this planet, people are hungry.The USA donates more money from private donations …. we working class people,…. than any other country per capita on the planet.Should we stop this because our country is in a financial mess?No & we won’t.
How about posting contact phone numbers to donate to world hunger here? How about discussions on population control? It’s alot easier to take ‘pot shots’ at the USA than talk about how much you are doing on a personal level to help alleviate the problems on this planet,….. eh?
December 8th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
My God, will someone please clean up this website!
i look at this website to try and appreciate life a little better and come away angry at the fact that this world is full of such immature, inconsiderate, pathetic idiots! Wait til the day come when life throws something dreadful at you and hopefully you’ll look back at this moment and make you regret every comment the rest of your life!
December 8th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
How can you people be so cruel?!?! Starvation may be gone in America, but it is right down the road to so many people in this world. How did you people end up with such a narrow view of the world that you can think of only yourselves. Millions of people die around the world every day of starvation and poor nutrition while we fat Americans sit on our fat asses preparing for quadruple bypass. NO WONDER the rest of the world hates America.
To Christian Nation: I do not believe those children are going to hell to burn in misery. I don’t believe that a God as merciful and loving as you profess to believe in would send a child who’s lived in hell on earth all their life to burn in one for eternity. I also think it’s terrible of you to assume that this child has been raised on their native religion, too. Much of Africa is Christian, and for all you know, these children could be too.
To *******">*******: you disgust me.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
these children are descendents of cain, they bear the mark of the first murder, and they have been weaned on animal worship and the voices of dead ancestors, they have been recruited into demonism and only a loving and merciful God is capable of the terrible comapssion of destroying them to protect us.
December 9th, 2008 at 12:41 am
What is amazing to me “Christian” Nation is that you seem to forget that Cain’s descendants all died in the flood. Better come up with a better reason for your hatred than that.
December 14th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Oh my goodness.
cant everyone just look at this picture, and acknowledge the message the photo expresses without posting rude and thoughtless comments, this goes to everybody, of every race, from all places of the earth.
December 14th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
THE REASON THE REST OF THE WORLD HATES AMERICA IS BECAUSE WE ARE BETTER THAN THEM AND THEY’RE JEALOUS
ALL YOU HATERS KNOW THATS TRUE
December 15th, 2008 at 3:49 am
well I reckon they hate America cuz theys loud mouths like you all hangin round the soda fountain, in the ole days we’d a strung your lily white horses hind end up from a tree and had done with ya, foul mouthed and stupid slob.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I’ve only been on this website a few minutes and even I can see that Tor is a FUCKBOY!!
December 18th, 2008 at 5:21 am
thats what them cheap biafran cowmanure cigarettes do, accept no imitations, marlboros the one for you.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Someone oughta build that boy a MacDonalds, and fast!!!
December 25th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
SO SAD…
December 28th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Wow…sometimes it’s embarrassing living in a world full of such morons. This picture is terribly saddening and just shows how much we still need to do to help those in need.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I know this is late but the reason these chillren are ‘fat’ is because they are horribly malnutritioned.
you people really need to learn to grow up and be thankful for what you have, and get off your asses every once in awhile to help someone. And im going to say this now, not all americans are arrogant or disgusting like most of you commenting on these pictures. I am american and I hate having to be what you people are. You make me ashamed to live here. Im moving to Europe.