Woman known as the 'Napalm Girl' awarded peace prize

Photographer Nick Ut and the photo of 9-year old Kim Phuc.

It was the photo that might have turned Americans against the Vietnam War. In the center was a little girl running away from the napalm bombs dropped from U.S. jets. She is naked, her clothes had burned off of her, her face in pain, bawling.

Kim Phuc, the l9-year old girl who became known as the “Napalm Girl” is now a 55-year old Asian Canadian is receiving a 10,000 euro ($11,302) award in Germany for her work for speaking out publicly against violence and hatred.

Organizers of the Dresden Prize say Phuc, is being honored for her support of UNESCO and children wounded in war, and fheir work for peace..Past recipients of the prize include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and American civil rights activist Tommie Smith.

Phuc was nine when a South Vietnamese plane dropped napalm bombs on her village, believing it harbored enemy North Vietnamese troops.

The iconic 1972 photograph captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973.

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