潘氏金福(右)与美联社摄像师Nick Ut 8日在聚会晚餐前的合影。(加通社)
加通社多伦多8日电/一名裸身女童在越战中慌乱逃离遭轰炸村庄的情景当时被人用相机拍摄下来,8日是此事发生的40周年纪念日。
1972年6月8日金福(全名潘氏金福,Kim Phuc Phan Thi)所住的越南村庄遭到凝固汽油弹的袭击,她与数名孩子在慌乱中沿着公路逃跑。这个情景被拍摄下来,此照片还获得普立兹新闻奖(Pulitzer Prize)。
金福现居住多伦多,她时常回想起这张改变了她一生命运的照片。
她8日晚上与普立兹新闻奖获奖者暨照片作者Nick Ut以及帮助她在越战中生存下来的其他人一起几年这个事件。她的挚友Liesa Cianchino说:“如果没有这些人帮助,她不可能存活下来。”
潘氏金福和丈夫1992年移民加拿大,五年之后,她创立了金福国际基金会,以帮助战争和恐袭的受害儿童。她还是联合国教科文组织的亲善大使。
Vietnam woman in iconic war photo, ‘the Napalm girl’ honoured four decades later
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — A woman who came to symbolize the horrors of the Vietnam War was honoured today on the 40th anniversary of the photo that made her famous.
Kim Phuc Phan Thi was only nine years old when she was photographed fleeing a napalm strike on her village in South Vietnam on June 8, 1972.
The image of her running naked down a road captured worldwide attention and later won a Pulitzer Prize.
She now lives in the Toronto area and spent much of the milestone looking back at how the iconic photo changed her life.
“I never thought that the child who was a famous symbol of war would one day be invited to become a symbol of peace,” she told friends and relatives at an event marking the occasion.
“I have so much to be grateful for, but I did not make this journey alone,” she said.
Joining her were Nick Ut, the award-winning photographer behind the image, and others who helped her survive the conflict, including doctors, nurses and even an immigration officer who helped her resettle in her adoptive country.
The event’s organizer said the woman who garnered worldwide fame “can’t even describe the emotions” stirred up by the anniversary.
“She would never have been alive if it wasn’t for these people,” said Liesa Cianchino, who is also a close friend of Kim Phuc’s.
Cianchino said the date should always serve as a reminder of the atrocities of war and their impact on children.
Kim Phuc and her husband came to Canada in 1992.
Five years later, she founded the Kim Foundation International, which provides free medical assistance to children who are victims of war and terrorism.
She is also a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.