Tragedy In Iraq: Behind Chris Hondros' 2005 Photograph | 100 Photos | TIME
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Chris Hondros’ photograph of a 5- year-old girl covered in her parents’ blood brought the plight of the Iraq War’s civilian casualties to America’s attention.
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Tragedy In Iraq: Behind Chris Hondros' 2005 Photograph | 100 Photos | TIME
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to the west these are pictures, to Iraqis these are lost lives and families destroyed, a lost identity and a country that will never rest after a cruel invasion.
Indeed you are right, What's done is done. The 3rd largest oil reserve country is now the country of spiking rate of suicide and the worst living condition that a Human could think of.
NOT ONLY TO IRAQ,To all people who still have humanity except those US government people
@@jayweechen they are called politicians
It breaks my heart looking at her little hands covered in blood :-(
This was so incredibly heart breaking and sad
this was not an isolated incident but not everyone is captured on camera or shared by the western media, Americans were brutal occupiers and invaders and their actions in Iraq will never be forgotten by the Iraqis.
Idiot Alert
We shouldn't have been there...
Agreed
Lacy Monster even if Iraq had something to do with 9/11 (which they didn’t), does that justify terrorizing children? Or is there just a gaping hole where your heart should be...
Is that really what you people think? That Iraq crashed planes into America? Despite Dick Cheney, Blair and Bush admitting that it was a mistake. There's an entire paper trail where the US intelligence committee said it was nothing to do with Iraq.
How can you justify this? Imagine if someone walks into your country and reduces it to rubble. What will you do? Exactly, when someone from the Middle East does something like join a rebel group, we call it "terrorism"
Yet, if we do it we call it "defence".
raginraven31 preach!
Lacy Monster you are wrong wasn’t them
May all the innocents who survived receive all the care and support they need
Dont worry..
American people will help them..
Thats what we do
James Demetro honestly
Those innocents are not waiting for America to help them because every time Americans enters a village all children runs to their parents because they know that those soldiers are coming to kill
Please Don’t get me wrong
I’m talking about the cruel president not the people I love Americans but I hate the government
May the guilty soldiers and all responsible burn, in this life and the next.
My family was shot at by ( I believe were the Marines ) in Iraq, yes, so one time I, my parents, and three siblings were in the car when my dad was driving in traffic and my dad was changing lanes passing cars until his car was the first one and I saw the soldier yell stop and had his hand out but it was too fast for my dad to react so they shot our car and then the engine smoked, we stopped and looked and they fled off when they knew it was a harmless family in the car. Luckily they shot at the lower part of the car and no one was seriously hurt, except my sister where a bullet scratched her foot.
Edit: I was super young when it happened but my dad confirmed it was Blackwater who shot us and not the Marines
Im glad you and your family are ok
try2justbe thank you so much
Blessings man
yeah fuxking right
God Bless your Family and you😘
I wonder where the children are today? They would be 18 now. I wonder where the soldiers are and how they feel today about those children?
Rakan has died in 2008. He was bombed. And girl has done an interview in 2017 about the picture.
i assume they felt as they felt at the moment he shot theyr parents... monsters
@@5425pd where can I watch the interview?
@@5425pd what's the girl name?
@@abdallahkalawoun3644The documentary Hondros covers the life of Chris Hondros, the photographer. In it, they interview Samar
Poor babies :( I love kids so this tore me apart
I couldn’t stop crying..
Funny how this has 30k views and the falling man video has 3 million...
Ruby Black how is it funny?
Ruby Black exactly
One Woman it’s more like, people care more about the death of our 5k than 500k Iraqis. smfh
@kkh369 I get what he was saying. Its not about quantity but quality. The most important thing in all these time videos is what we take from them and how yo apply
When Madeline Albright was told, that because of the sanctions, thousands of Iraqi kids died due to lack of medicines, she commented, it was collateral damage. For the Americans, what happened to this kid is no exception.All American Presidents pontificate, "We are the indispensable nation."Which in simple englsh means, the rest of the nations are dispensable.
The first action was to shoot? The first decision? They had no idea who was in that car, and they orphaned and traumatised 6 children. I want to know if any of those soldiers ever felt guilt for the despicable acts they inflicted on civilians.
You should watch the movie "Hondros" dedicated to him. It gives a good insight on one of the soldiers guilt, how he felt, and a recent interview of the little girl now at 18 years of age and how that incident has effected her life. You really gotta watch it if you wanna know more about he story.
The soldier had a split second to make decision. Shoot or perhaps himself and everyone else blows up. You had years, photos and hindsight to reflect upon and judge his actions. Try to be empathetic to him for just a sec. ( mind you empathy doesn’t mean you would make the same choice), but put yourself in his boots... in his location... under those circumstances. NOT AWARE there were children, not knowing why they weren’t stopping ( and YES they indeed learn STOP in their language,their lives depend on not getting lost in translation), not knowing why they were erratically speeding towards them, not knowing if they have guns or the car is a speeding bomb... AND they are in a war zone. So most people would shoot first or be shot. I would, too. There are casualties of war. He did not maliciously murder anyone. This is war. Just put yourself in his place. If he would’ve been SOLDIER SAFETY FIRST and kindly pulled them over to ask questions and they had been armed or had a bomb, they ALL would’ve been blown to sh*t. And people would be calling him an idiot. You have the luxury of 20/20. He had a split second of WTF?!??
sophiethepegasus
This is one of thousands similar incidents. Ask any Iraqi and they'll tell you
Natalie Rozean
Haha like you have been there and truly know the truth. What you just saw is just i tiny fragment of what thousands of heartless soldiers have done. They often joke and laugh about it. How comfortable is your couch btw? Shame on you
Shams Bashir Link me a video of someone laughing about killing 6 children’s parents because they feel endangered.
Met Chris in Iraq. He took a photo of my buddies and me. I was very saddened to hear he was killed in action a few years later. This is such a sad story.
No child.. Any child.. Be a part of such violence 💔
I fell sorry for the children
And to anyone saying why didn't they stop well it probably happened to fast to react, also the driver could have been distracted, maybe he didn't hear them until it was too late, people rear end cars all the time and you're here blaming the man for not seeing the soldier and stopping. A little thinking would help you out you know.
4:24 was 'soldier' really cut from the video?
Duckman1616 it was likely the military branch that was cut. So it was faceless soldiers and not a specific unit of marines, army, etc.
They say soldier so often in the video, I doubt it was cut in this case. What would be the point?
one is wearing a screamig eagle patch. its clear theyre army
Well now I feel somewhat empty inside. I can't even imagine the memories those children will have to live with, for however long they live/lived. Those pictures shouldn't fucking exist. But the similar things have happened before, and it will happen again...and again....
vote third party if you're honest. both corporate parties are in the pocket of military industrial complex, and are murdering millions every year to make more money. their grift is that they take money from you, the tax payers, give it to the military, military gives it to weapons manufacturers, and weapons manufacturers give it back to politicians, taking the cut, of course, but, at that point, the money has been laundered, and no one can say they just took the money from tax payers. except that's exactly what they did, with some extra steps. voting for third party means that the war machine would temporarily slow down, as people from green, people's, and even libertarian party, none of them as of yet have connections to MIC. I suspect they would develop some soon enough, but before they do, world would be allowed a breath of air
and the propaganda piece that "voting third party is throwing your voice away" is bs, if you had third of congress/senate stocked up with people from third parties, neither dems nor republicans could pass anything unless either they united (formed a coalition), thus revealing that they are the same party, and being done for, or if they united with third parties, in which case, they would be forced to compromise, and would have to cut military budget, while giving americans what they need. so third party is solution both for rest of the world, as well as americans. and if president was the wrong guy, he'd be stumped every step of the way by the third parties opposition, and still part of two collapsing corporate parties
2:28 and 4:06 ok that's is one powerful shot right there! very personal, you focus on the face and the everything around it is not the focus.
This is very outrageous
they probably said stop in english. sigh.
Ikr?!
Quail if armed men are frantically screaming anything id stop dead in my tracks
So if someone screams at you in another language you will ignore it?
If you thought they'd take you're children away then you're autistic, they were trying to stop them because they were driving alarmingly fast towards them and it was most likely a car bomb.
MOTO That is so stupid. If armed men are frantically screaming at me I’m hitting the gas. How could the family have possibly known what the soldiers wanted? What an ignorant statement.
This is America
So sorry
Only the dead has seen the end of war.
That's tragic and horrific.
for you.. this is images and toys... for me.. this is my innocent people💔💔
This is heartbreaking 😢😢
I hope this ends it’s so sad 😭
Laila Pacheco it's just going to get worse. everyone has hope for this and that. it will never end. in my opinion people need to stop having kids. we're over populated
Terrible. Those poor families especially the kids
just say it. just say they shot parents of 6 kids for no real reason
great documentary on netflix about chris. well worth a watch
“America:Why do they hate us?”
I feel bad for the soldiers and the kids. 😞
Yeah, so much sympathy for the soldiers razing an occupied country.
This is so sad.
America had no business there.
Yeah thank you america
Yeah I remember that time they would come to our houses and steal from us and I remember when there was gun shots 😫😔😔
Mariam Salah steal what?
Wow, speachless. thanks for peace and democracy anyway
May Allah protect all the kids from the ummah💔😔
jameela bin hussain news flash Allah isent real hunni
Oh! it's Elli that was the truth 😉
xMissMilkyWayx Do you realized that Allah is just yet another word for God, dumbass ? What a cold hearted person you must be.
ghostly snipe16 im agnostic u dumb ass couldn't u tell maybe by the statement "not real" 😂
C. McFluffington not cold hearted my dear educated and like to keep shit real so yes ik what it means do I care bo because its all bull 😂
It's a sad story yes and sorry to say this but its reality. It's sad because that's how actual bombing are preformed, just driving a vehicle into an area and blow up. I don't blame the soldiers, I blame the spineless cowards that caused there to be a fear of suicide car bombings
Finally someone with a damn brain
Or blame your country for being there in the first place
Aurea Gallardo Exactly
Aurea Gallardo Every country has invaded for resources since the beginning of any country. America is just more public with it as a scare tactic so get over yourself. This is indeed a tragedy but we were there in response to 9/11 which was also a tragedy that didn't need to be.
Shanni Peettyson you killed, tortured and destroyed a whole country because a few people were killed in a terrorist attack on your country? That’s not fair. And btw it didn’t solve the real problems which is the lack of safety and security in America in all aspects. Research shows that smuggling harmful and dangerous stuff to planes is still manageable and airport security is unreliable. Also, many people die everyday because of bad health care and domestic terrorism aka school shootings. Your money should go into improving your own country rather than destroying other countries
Wait so they killed the parents of the children?
yes ma'am they just shot a 3 years old kids parents for no fucking reason and with cold blood come and say u need democracy
yes ma'am they just shot a 3 years old kids parents for no fucking reason and with cold blood come and say u need democracy
I think all we needed to do was focus on Afghanistan.
🙏
So sad!
When hearing the news all the time,this got killed,that got shot dead,US HUMANITY HA?????Ridiculous!!!
The kingdom of heaven can be compared to leaven in which a women took and hid in three measures of mill until it was all leavened
Im so angry.. poor babies
Here's a clue on how not to be sad....
Dont watch war on UA-cam
Why are the photos so blurry? Worst photographer ever.
How sad that the soldiers knew nothing about the country that they are in. They didn't know how their hospitals are equipped? How can they help people? I mean they are still pretending at least they are in Iraq to help, right?
American glorry
God🙏
Show me a beautiful, clean, safe war.
If you asked to show you a war that should have never been started I'll show you this one
Does anyone believe that theese pictures will change any. Future wars? Or was it just some carnage for "TIME" to make a few bucks off of ?? I wonder if TIME done anything helpful for those children?
2:26 look at that poor kid...
Fucking onions cutting ninjas :(
Florian Auerbach what? that was even that sad
So who shot them? The soldiers?
Omega Man yes
A goddamn tragedy.
If you think so.
Stop watching the news...
this seems dehumanizing to a fault
This is U.S.' promise to bring freedom to Iraq.
Iraq is a much more democratic country now so I say we succeeded! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@Mercenary-16 Who is the idiot who told you this ridiculous thing? I am an Iraqi and now I am speaking to you from Iraq. Iraq is now a failed state on all standards and there is no democracy. Curse be upon you, sons of cow herders. You have destroyed Iraq, which provided the world with everything from livestock and science.
What is happening?
Power of the photos. None of them are in focus. 👎
My God.
why didn't they just stop instead of putting there kids in danger and themselves
xMissMilkyWayx you don't know their side of story maybe they didn't hear or paniced and everything went so fast for anyone to react,it's not right to put the blame on them , because you are not in their situation.
It's so sad what happened I cant apologize more but our troops were there supporting our country while being lied too our own president Bush was I believe part of the twin towers being brought down & many lives taken & many more traumatized I believe there were forces that caused all this pain & suffering & they were Americans who planned this devastation & I pray they be brought to justice.
God bless you man for not being up your arse. Agreed.
Some blurry pictures looks like my 2year old was taking pictures
Balls Mcgee there if fucking Iraq fighting a war do you think they have time to take HD photos.
Balls Mcgee deal with it take 2 cuz i deleted the 1st comment 🙏🏻
The guy was fighting in Iraq wtf do you want him to do?! Stand n wait till he gets the perfect angle?!
To record history. That's why. :P
You should rethink your comment. It definitely shows that you know very little about Chris Hondros and what he was capable of. He was a badass photographer, one of the best photo journalists that had ever lived. He traveled around the world placing himself in the frontlines of almost every conflict that had occurred within the past 2 decades just to capture some of the most amazing photos surrounding war. Watch the movie about him and you will know exactly what I mean.
tall US what?
pulitzer prize
war is hell. iraq was a war zone. stuff like that happens
The Iraq invasion was illegal and based on lies. The Americans had NO RIGHT to be there in the first place.
"stuff like that happens" -- what a brave philosophy. I'm going to hire someone to follow you around and whisper that in your ear whenever anything horrible happens to you in your miserable selfish life.
since when has anywar been a legal war
Oh you're right. Nothing sad or wrong here. Lets go home people...
ARE YOU SERIOUS ??
Vasting The first invasion of Iraq was American caused from poor foreign policy. Not to mention the over 180 governments the USA has overthrown since the second world war.
Carlos T the US does not control all those nations. Even china agreed an Russia on the first Iraq war. It was UN led
Those kids are going to grow up to be radical islamists now.
no they're not. And if so, It wont be because of Islam, it'd be because someone killed their bloody parents. Stop generalising shit fam.