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AFN / UBCIC : TO HARVEST FOOD : SCC CANLII / DFO
COMMERCIAL FISHERY DECISION VICTORY FOR ISLAND FIRST NATIONS
COMMERCIAL FISHERY DECISION VICTORY FOR ISLAND FIRST NATIONS
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I"n March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod. Carter said he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn’t. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. (The parents of the girl were busy taking food from the same UN plane Carter took to Ayod).
The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993 as ‘metaphor for Africa’s despair’. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run an unusual special editor’s note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown. Journalists in the Sudan were told not to touch the famine victims, because of the risk of transmitting disease, but Carter came under criticism for not helping the girl. ”The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene,” read one editorial.
Carter eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo, but he couldn’t enjoy it. “I’m really, really sorry I didn’t pick the child up,” he confided in a friend. Consumed with the violence he’d witnessed, and haunted by the questions as to the little girl’s fate, he committed suicide three months later."icon
BAD SCIENCE :Where is the Queen of Canada, as sovereign monarch, in being accountable to Original Peoples for the detrimental nutirition experiments as conducted upon 1300 children through the years 1942-52 ? : CBC NEWS : 2 (see also : 1930 TB Tests : CTV) ???
