The picture was much appreciated by Eddie Adams of the Associated Press. She won the Pulitzer Prize for the 1969 press photo, gained fame and popularity throughout the world and was used in many films and documentaries on the Vietnam War, but nevertheless brought great remorse to her photographer, The murderer has been wronged!
The killer in the photo is General Nguyen Luan, commander of the national police in South Vietnam. The man who is executed is Van Lin, an officer of the Viet Cong-backed National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. The photographer said that what the picture does not show is that the person His execution committed massacres against large numbers of civilians. On the day he was arrested, hours before the execution, he was caught next to a mass grave of a number of southern policemen. After a quick investigation, he was executed by the police chief. That the Buddha will forgive me. "
Despite the atrocities responsible for the dead, Lin, his execution in front of the camera put the police chief in the role of the villain, the picture became a global outrage against the chief of police and considered evidence of the horrors of the Vietnam War involving America to support southerners, the photographer regretted and apologized to the Chief of Police, The general said to him: If you did not take the picture, someone else would pick it up.
But the anger kept the killer in check. Months later, he was wounded in the fighting, his leg amputated and forced to retire. He left for the United States and opened a pizza restaurant in a New York suburb, but his identity was discovered and the restaurant closed in 1991. He found writing on the wall of the bathroom saying "We know who you are cursed" and died in 1998 at the age of 67 years.
South Vietnam fell into the hands of the communist north in 1975 after the Americans withdrew from the capital Saigon and left the southerners to face their fate. South Americans disposed of American goods and any signs linking them to the Americans. They welcomed the Northern Army. However, Vietnam has become a market economy, Officially became a socialist republic but gradually merged into the global capitalist market.
