However, what most of you might not know is that this Syrian girl in the picture above, was photographed by a Turkish photographer Osman Sağırlı and has a very special story.
Whenever we see such pictures, we get a feeling of sympathy with the Syrian people. This specific picture was supposed to be a normal one for this girl, but when she saw the camera held by the photographer, she directly surrendered and raised her hands thinking that this camera was a weapon that was going to kill her. You can see the fear in her eyes and the way she bites her lip not to cry. This girl definitely knows that cameras exist, but the fear that this ugly war has put in her heart made her involuntary surrender to anything, even other people like her with flesh and blood.
Two days ago the massacre of Aleppo happened and the first thing that came to my mind was this girl. What was she going to do when she saw the "pictures" taken by the "photographers" holding their "cameras" on the crime seen? She was going to surrender one more time to the camera because it was the tool that put her in contact with what happened to children in her age out there. One can never escape the truth which is that the massacre actually happened and broke all of our hearts (I can't even look at the pictures), but one should also remember that children are watching their fellow children dying on social media in the ugliest most evil ways, is this fair?
It did break my heart...</3
ReplyDeleteThat's right Loujain ,Halb news in the last few days is very sad,hopefully things will get better soon.
ReplyDeleteMay the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon them
ReplyDeleteWhy does war exist? Why are we supposed to have such tragedy everyday? I really don't know! I even don't have any idea about when war is going to end...
ReplyDeleteYour post actually breaks my heart, because this is not what children are supposed to pass through. Children have the right to play and nothing but play; and unfortunately they are experiencing death every single day and its effect is harsh on all children just as this little poor girl. Even the camera that supposedly captures the most beautiful moments and keeps memories, is now looked at as a weapon that threatens one's life.
When I watch the news and see what's going on around us, I ask myself whether we are in Eliot's Wasteland or in Dante's Inferno. Where have we reached? Massacred, bloodshed, hatred, killing and murder. Is this the life we want our children to lead in the 21st century? We are lost, fragmented, and alienated. We need to come back to our humanity and it takes a lot of time for us to do so. we need to liberate ourselves from the shackles of tyranny and oppression before we move towards a renaissance similar to the one that happened in Europe centuries ago and which led it to be a democratic continent.
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