In Syria, Sleeping between his parents | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52203612 Netherlands 01/17/2014 09:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sad yes, if its real dont know. Im just trying to imagine how this works. Photographer walks around sees kid sleeping between 2 graves, he thinks weird, lets snap a pic. So he does and then wakes him up, hey bruh why you sleeping there? Oh those are my parents. Altight cheers mate, thanks very much, Ill upload this pic and your story and earn myself a thousands of bucks and a name for myself. Or.... Propagandaminister US We need to win the public morality for a war against Assad, lets play the emotion card and give this little kid 10 bucks to pose for us for 5 minutes. |
Ger_reG
User ID: 1108496 Germany 01/17/2014 09:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Ger_reG
User ID: 1108496 Germany 01/17/2014 09:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | By Harald Doornbos There’s a big chance you have seen this dramatic picture of a Syrian boy covered by a blanket sleeping between the two graves of his dead parents. It went viral after some big accounts published it yesterday on twitter. There is only one problem: The picture is not from Syria, but from Saudi Arabia. Frankly, there are more problems regarding the picture: Because there are no bodies in the graves either. And the graves are not graves but piles of stones made to look like graves. And the sad sleeping boy did not lose his parents at all. He is the little son of the photographers’ sister, who made these pictures as part of an art project. The photographer is twenty five year old Saudi national Abdul Aziz al Otaibi. I decided to call him and ask for his comments. And sure – he is pretty annoyed by all of it. “Look, it’s not true at all that my picture has anything to do with Syria,” Al-Otaibi says, “I am really shocked how people have twisted my picture.” I talked to Al-Otaibi over the phone via an interpreter. He is in the town of Yanbu al Bahr (Spring by the Sea) in Saudi Arabia, where he is a keen photographer. In the meantime, I am in southern Turkey, on the border with Syria. [link to haralddoornbos.wordpress.com] |
YaRight
(OP) User ID: 43988844 United States 01/17/2014 09:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Saudi photographer tells me: This is not Syria, its not a grave and the boys parents are not dead Quoting: Ger_reG By Harald Doornbos There’s a big chance you have seen this dramatic picture of a Syrian boy covered by a blanket sleeping between the two graves of his dead parents. It went viral after some big accounts published it yesterday on twitter. There is only one problem: The picture is not from Syria, but from Saudi Arabia. Frankly, there are more problems regarding the picture: Because there are no bodies in the graves either. And the graves are not graves but piles of stones made to look like graves. And the sad sleeping boy did not lose his parents at all. He is the little son of the photographers’ sister, who made these pictures as part of an art project. The photographer is twenty five year old Saudi national Abdul Aziz al Otaibi. I decided to call him and ask for his comments. And sure – he is pretty annoyed by all of it. “Look, it’s not true at all that my picture has anything to do with Syria,” Al-Otaibi says, “I am really shocked how people have twisted my picture.” I talked to Al-Otaibi over the phone via an interpreter. He is in the town of Yanbu al Bahr (Spring by the Sea) in Saudi Arabia, where he is a keen photographer. In the meantime, I am in southern Turkey, on the border with Syria. [link to haralddoornbos.wordpress.com] well good because that one sad pic, glad its not true The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. |
BRIEF
User ID: 381742 United States 01/17/2014 09:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh, the momma is dead And the daddy don't know it The daddy is dead And the momma don't know it They were both real brave And in the same grave And neither one knows that their son is just laying there in the middle. Propaganda pic is propaganda I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
Beetlejuice
User ID: 50063679 Netherlands 01/17/2014 09:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's not from Syria and probably not real. Quoting: Ger_reG That doesn't mean that the Syrian children don't have to go through horrible times. Yup: Thread: Picture of Syrian boy sleeping between the graves of his parents Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here. |