Turkish photographer Osman Sagirli snapped the picture of little Adi Hudea in December at the Atmen refugee camp on Syria’s border with Turkey. Gaza-based photojournalist Nadia Abu Shaban last week tweeted the heart-rending picture of Adi — her eyes conveying a mixture of sadness and fear as she purses her lips tightly. “Thought he has a weapon not a camera so she gave up!” Abu Shaban wrote. The posting has been retweeted 18,000 times, eliciting an emotional outpouring across the globe. “I’m actually weeping seeing this. We’ve made this planet a horrible place, haven’t we?” tweeted user @cosmetopia. Adi has been living with her traumatized mom and three siblings at the camp since 2012, when her dad died in the Hama province massacre that claimed about 200 lives. At first, some Twitter users believed the lost-innocence photo may have been staged. But a user on the Imgur photo-sharing site traced it back to the Turkiye newspaper, where it was published in January, the BBC reported. The photographer insisted it was authentic. “I was using a
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eyaahh

As in ehn.. Born and living in perpetual fear.
God has given us a Nigeria and we're trying to tear it apart with greed and conceit.

That's soo sad,I hope he was able to explain that it was a camera afterwards to the little girl.she's too small to have to go through so much violence.

I am an Ambassador for peace.. I stand for peace; peace for the generation behind us.. Let us live together in unity irrespective of our colour and tribe... We must Never fail our children!!! Very very emotional!!!!

this story is not true in its entirety

Syria is lamic country

I'm so moved I wish we can go back to when things were not worse:

eyaaah, the pikin knows only fear and death now. what our world has become.

Fp nomination

Violence must stop globally...

This is heart-rending. Such innocence.

This make me weep small for syrian people.

The world has failed the syrian people. They should work together and rebuild their country.

They should stop destroying their country.

This is saddening. Poor girl

Someone posted it here yesterday. Such an heart breaking picture. Can't they put a stop to these wars for the sake of the little children

dominique:
Someone posted it here yesterday. Such an heart breaking picture. Can't they put a stop to these wars for the sake of the little children

I hope the Islamic dump heads will hear it and stop the war

muslims are their own worst enemy.
why cant they ever find out the meaning of the word peace from the dictionary rather than their holy koran

juman:
This make me weep small for syrian people.

The world has failed the syrian people. They should work together and rebuild their country.

They should stop destroying their country.

the world did not fail syria. it is their twisted islamic ideology that failed them.

tunapa2009:
I am an Ambassador for peace.. I stand for peace; peace for the generation behind us.. Let us live together in unity irrespective of our colour and tribe... We must Never fail our children!!! Very very emotional!!!!

papa PEACE

This sould hit fp ... Gej try for naija ooo

kekakuz:
this story is not true in its entirety

Really?

Islam-a-bad

redvektor:
papa PEACE

ore papa peace

all these oloshis from the SW be like "ehyaaa"..............meanwhile their mothers and fathers were yelling "finish them" when the federal republic of zoo was pummeling poor Biafra during the civil war............this thread reeks of staged sympathy

The poor gal must have seen thousands killed this way

war torned country suffers anyone

MOD won't take this to front page now ooo, if it's totoh dikeh half dressed with just 2 comments e go hit fp

this post is meant to be on front page