The story of Syrian kid who surrendered (Photo: BBC Trending)
Cyberspace back commotion with a photograph of a Syrian kid who looks were raised his hands to surrender. Then, as if the real story behind the photo very touching it?
Photo spreads the boy began on Tuesday (24/3) last week, after a photojournalist Gaza named Nadia Abu Shaban upload it to Twitter. Not long after that, someone was again pass through Reddit.
photojournalist took this photo 4 Syrian child, thought he has a weapon not a camera so she Gave up ! #Surrended pic.twitter.com/bm1hOWQWJY
— Nadia AbuShaban (@NadiaAbuShaban) 24 Maret 2015
Unfortunately, many netizens turns assume that the image is merely the result of mere engineering. Abu Shaban also stated that he is not a photographer who has immortalize and he alone can not explain who did it.
Until finally, an initiative Imgur users to trace the origin of the phenomenal photo. He then managed to find a newspaper clipping which reveals that the photo is genuine and has been immortalized by a photo journalist named Osman Sagirli Turkey "around 2012". The boy who is in the photo was the male sex.
However, when the BBC Trending contact Sagirli - who now works in Tanzania -, he was just stating that the kid is in the picture is a four-year-old girl named Hudea. He also took the photo Atmeh in refugee camps in Syria in December last year.
"I use a telephoto lens and it turned out to think that it is a weapon. I just realized that he was so scared after I take a picture and see his picture. He pursed his lips and raised his hands. Usually, the children would run away, hide their faces , or smile when they see a camera, "said Sagirli.
Sagirli was then added, "In the camp there are a lot of refugees. It would make more sense to look at them instead of suffering through adults, but by children. Children reflect the feelings of their innocence."
FYI, Hudea photograph was first published in the newspaper Turkiye the month of January. At that time, the photo has been widely disseminated by the netizens Turkey. Nevertheless, it took a few months until the end of the Western world truly pay attention to the Sagirli photo.
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