Stunning pictures from history

1994. Rwanda. This man was tortured by government forces on suspicion of being a Tutsi sympathiser.

Uganda. 1980. A starving child and the missionary.

Humanity gone perverse. 1966. Vietnam. US soldiers drag the body of a dead Vietcong

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam immolates himself to protest against the government policy of torture of priests.

January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered.

Racist America. 1957. Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. She was the first black student admitted to the school. She lasted just 4 days. She could not tolerate the racist taunts.