Courtesy: JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images
Lots of images had presented us the horror Syrians have to face since ten and a half months. Some made us thoughtful, some made us sad, a lot of them shocked us deeply regarding the unimaginable violence the regime uses to crackdown the freedom movement: from mutilated bodies of tortured protesters to children being shot by regime snipers we have witnessed cruelty in its purest form.
But sometimes images reach us worth to take a closer look at to understand the whole story behind like in this case: a young man being shot is lying on the street while two others are looking if they can help him but it seems their efforts are coming too late. A stream of blood runs under his head, we can‘t see his face but near his stretched right arm a cell phone lies on the ground.
Had he made a call before the bullet has hit him? Or was he photographing or recording when the shooter took him down?
The whole image is representative for the situation in Syria since the uprising began. Protesters with mobile phones able to keep the images of the regime violence are priority targets of the security forces. Maybe he had filmed in that moment some army thugs or shabiha gangsters committing crimes. Maybe that was his death sentence in that moment.
This image is telling the story of the uprising and the regime crackdown measures in a compact and frightening manner.
No comments:
Post a Comment