In December 1971 newly independent Bangladesh guerrillas in Dacca used bayonets to torture and kill four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen. Aside from the morality of what is in effect a summary execution, a controversy surrounding the photos of the event was that many photographers believed that the massacre would never have occurred if they had not been there. It was as if they were invited to a ‘photo-opportunity’, some recalled, and many photographers left. Horst Faas and Michael Laurent, who felt they had a duty to tell the story, stayed; they pooled their photos and shared the 1972 Pulitzer. The bayonetting photo became an iconic image of the East Bengal War.