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Photo exhibition on Vietnam opens in Paris

A photo exhibition on Vietnam before, during and after the wartime opened in Paris, France on October 2.
A photo exhibition on Vietnam before, during and after the wartime opened in Paris, France on October 2.

The event is to mark 40 years of the “Napalm girl” photo by Huynh CongUt, who is known as Nick Ut, a photographer for the Associated Press(AP).

With a major message of “Peace for theworld”, besides the world famous photo of a naked 9-year-old girl, KimPhuc, with her body severely burnt, running to flee her village in SouthVietnam in flame during the US army’s bombing, about 100 photos are ondisplay on the theme of war and peace in Vietnam, also by Nick Ut.-VNA
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