The photo that changed the world: 50 years ago @nickut captured Kim Phuc & other children fleeing an incendiary weapons attack in #Vietnam washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… The United States air force had dropped 4 napalm bombs on a village where civilians were sheltering @hrw #CCWUN 
@nickut @hrw @Harvard_ACCPI @UN_Disarmament @DisarmamentIRL @kim_foundation Public revulsion over the suffering of napalm victim Kim Phuc & other civilians in #Vietnam increased pressure on the US to stop the war, as @nickut explains in @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… That happened less than 3 years later with the fall of Saigon.
Public outrage at civilian suffering from US napalm use in Vietnam led to stronger rules protecting civilians in warfare. In 1981 governments adopted new international law prohibiting aerial incendiary weapons attacks in civilian areas hrw.org/topic/arms/inc… #CCWUN Protocol III
Napalm survivor Kim Phuc described her experience last December at an @hrw @Harvard_ACCPI briefing on the harm caused by incendiary weapons #CCWUN videopress.com/v/9aMCfGLN Note that this video contains graphic descriptions & imagery of a traumatic event. humanitariandisarmament.org/2021/12/14/inc…
"Peace, love, hope and forgiveness will always be more powerful than any kind of weapon" - Kim Phuc in the @nytimes nytimes.com/2022/06/06/opi… @kim_foundation
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