Little Adi Hudea raises her hands in surrender after confusing photographer Osman Sagirli's camera for a gun. Photo: Osman Sagirli
The horrors of the civil war in Syria are captured in this poignant photo of a frightened 4-year-old girl raising her hands in surrender — thinking that the long-lens camera pointed at her is a gun.
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 telephoto lens, and she thought it was a weapon,” Sagirli told the BBC.
He explained that normally, a child who is unaccustomed to having a photo taken will either “run away, hide their faces or smile when they see a camera.”
It wasn’t until after he examined the picture, said Sagirli, that he realized his subject was terrified because she had seen so many weapons in her young life that the camera became a weapon in her mind.
The UN has called Syria’s five-year civil war the “world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe,” with an estimated 220,000 killed and more than 12 million in need of aid. About 5.6 million of those are children.

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Damn!!

Human's most stupid creation ever is weapons of war

Heartbreaking!!!

Even small pikin don taste d cruelty of mankind and knows beta,

Hmmmm,touching.

oloriooko:

tupem:

This Islamic peace self.
Their all - jaanah will be awful.

MightySparrow:



This Islamic peace self.

Their all - jaanah will be awful.

I think this particular incident is way beyond Islamic terrorism, this is a case of man making this earth uninhabitable for his fellow man.

Her psyche has been damage for ever! It takes a lot of therapy to get rid of those war image.

She's going through a lot at such a young age, kai,now I feel the pain on those in north east.

May the lord heal the heart of those countries in terror.

Sad.

haul:
Her psyche has been damage for ever! It takes a lot of therapy to get rid of those war image.

She's going through a lot at such a young age, kai,now I feel the pain on those in north east.

May the lord heal the heart of those countries in terror.

Amin ooooo Jesuuuu

Why can't greedy people evaporate 4rm dis earth??..Greed is the major cause for these wars..God do something abeg,this is too much..Look @ fear written all over her face

The thunder wey go fire ISIs,Boko and any terrorist groups and civil war hungry people dey assembly plant dey come with a V10000 engine

fyneboi79:
The thunder wey go fire ISIs,Boko and any terrorist groups and civil war hungry people dey assembly plant dey come with a V10000 engine

Yes ooooo