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11:15, 12-Apr-2019
Image of crying toddler on U.S. border wins World Press Photo award
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The haunting image of a little girl crying helplessly as she and her mother are taken into custody by U.S. border officials won the prestigious World Press Photo Award Thursday.
Judges said veteran Getty photographer John Moore's picture taken after Honduran mother Sandra Sanchez and her daughter Yanela illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last year showed "a different kind of violence that is psychological."
The picture of the wailing toddler was published worldwide and caused a public outcry about Washington's controversial policy to separate thousands of migrants and their children.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials later said Yanela and her mom were not among those separated, but the public furor "resulted in President Donald Trump reversing the policy in June last year," the judges said.
Judges selected this year's winners from 78,801 images entered by 4,738 photographers worldwide, the Amsterdam-based organizers said.
(Top image: A little girl crying helplessly as she and her mother are taken into custody by U.S. border officials. /AFP Photo）
Source(s): AFP