Lynsey Addario Quotes
Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.
Addario, Lynsey. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War. Penguin Press, 2015.
Republican Congressmen Mark Foley had been forced to resign for inappropriate sexual advances to Congressional pages and the party leadership had allowed the story to be covered up. The story was the largest issue covered by the media almost to the exclusion of all other stories including the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
DPs were “displaced persons” -- the euphemism for people who were no longer welcome in their country of birth. Congress, made up mostly of immigrants or the children of immigrants who were poor and downtrodden, were not enthusiastic about the United States absorbing many of the world’s DPs resulting from WWII.
Although the Yugoslav casualties were horrific, they inflicted great casualties on the Germans who lost more men fighting the Yugoslavs than they lost to any other of the allies except the Russians.
The condition of most of Europe towards the end of WWII was dire. However, even then it was clear that since there were organized communists (partisans who fought the Nazis during the war) many of them would try and dominate the postwar politics in many counties. This was no surprise to American planners and policy makers.
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies.
