Menu
Inshorts
For the best experience use inshorts app on your smartphone
inshortsinshorts
Girl in 1972 Vietnam war photo receives prize for peace work
short by Ankush Verma / on Tuesday, 12 February, 2019
Kim Phuc, who was photographed running down a road in tears, naked and severely burned at the age of nine in 1972 during the Vietnam War, has received the Dresden prize for her work for peace. Now aged 55, Phuc was honoured for her support of UNESCO and children wounded in war, and for speaking out against violence and hatred.
read more at The Guardian