One of the most brutal conflicts in modern times was the Vietnam War, whose beginnings could be traced to the anti-colonial struggle of the Vietnamese against the French in Indochina until the early 1950s. In the early 1960s, the United States intervened on the side of the South Vietnamese government in fighting the revolutionary Vietcong supported by North Vietnam. A million Vietnamese died in the conflict. Many of the victims of that war were Vietnamese children, and one of them is shown in a now famous photo. Naked, frightened and in tears, a girl is running away from her burning village napalm-bombed by American aircraft. That photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc—who now lives with her family in Canada—was taken by photojournalist Nick Ut.
