Three photos have lingered in my mind for years.  I would like to find
them again.  This is how I label them in my mind:

1. The girl with death written on her face
2. The woman with the nightmare face
3. The woman at the crane site

This is the first request of three:  the girl with death written on her face.

This is a news photo, probably a wire services photo, of a young girl,
maybe 15 to 18 years old, a victim of the war in Kosovo.  She is lying
on her side, one arm extended.  Her head is to the left in the photo. 
Her eyes are partly open but glazed, their expression uncanny, as if
she were already seeing beyond the end of her life.  Death is upon
her, so plainly that it would be hard to believe she lived more than
an hour after the photo was taken.

I would guess this was in the newspaper 7 or 8 years ago, but I could
be off.  I saw it in either the San Jose Mercury News or the San
Francisco Chronicle.

A link to the photo will answer the question.  Alternately, an upload
to a site from which I could retrieve it would work.

Dates and photo credits would be nice but are not necessary for a complete answer.

Thank you,
Apteryx

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 18 Jan 2004 13:58 PST

Hi apteryx,

I believe I found the photo but need you to take a look at it to make
sure it's the one.

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9904/17/kosovo.rapes/

Scroll about halfway down the page. It's the 3rd, and last, picture on the page.

Please let me know if this is the photograph you are looking for.

Regards,
rainbow

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Clarification of Question by apteryx-ga on 18 Jan 2004 18:12 PST

Thanks, Rainbow, but that's not it.  The photo I saw showed at least
the upper half of the girl's body.  She seemed to be lying in a bed or
on a pallet, maybe in a hospital.  Here is a very rough sketch of the
angle and position as I recall them, including the fact that her gaze
is to the viewer's left:

http://membres.lycos.fr/dbky/Apteryx/KosovoDyingGirl.jpg

I think you could also see injuries on the extended arm.  And even if
the photo were cropped differently, I would know the face.  The young
woman in your photo looks many times healthier than the girl in the
picture I'm after; you wouldn't think this young woman is dying.  In
the picture I'm recalling, you can see that the light of life is all
but gone from the girl's eyes.  That's what made it so memorable:  it
had a wrenching immediacy that came right out of the grainy
black-and-white newspaper photo and gripped you by the throat.

Apteryx

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Clarification of Question by apteryx-ga on 18 Jan 2004 20:17 PST

How strange.  This page is not offering the usual "Comments" option. 
The button just isn't there.  And I believe I have posted request #3
twice now, but it is not appearing, nor does it show up on my account
at all.  It's as if it had vaporized--twice.  Something seems to be
wrong.

A.

Apteryx: 

I had a similar problem, I needed five attempts to post one
question... aht-ga gave his thoughts on it here:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=288495

:-) As2o3