World Press Photo of the Year 2004

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This years World Press Photo awards contain amazing pictures. Besides the truly shocking first prize winner, I have to point out this amazing photo that won second prize and tells all that can be humanly conveyed about the plight of the third world. Then don't miss the gallery of the winners from the past 50 years, which include some very well known photos. This however was not well known, and neither was the event it portrayed - a little known piece of japanese history, a web search of which took me to this interesting page...