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Bag’s Take-Away:
These two girls lost their father and two siblings when the Syrian Army shelled their home in Idlib, Syria. The 12 year old flashes a V sign which, I’m told, in Syria signifies “Win or Die.”
via The Sacramento Bee Day in Pictures
(photo credit: Rodrigo Abd/AP caption: In this Saturday, March 10, 2012 photo, Hana, 12, flashes the victory sign next to her sister Eva, 13, as they recover from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled their house in Idlib, north Syria. Their father and two siblings were killed after their home was shelled. .)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
A girl (looks like a toddler) has a bullet removed from her hand in Homs, Syria. The superman shirt is poignant.
(photo credit: Stringer/Reuters caption: A doctor at a makeshift hospital displays a bullet removed from the hand of a young girl wounded during what protesters said was an attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, at the Khalidiya neighbourhood in Homs March 8, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
The final pic in a Newsweek photo gallery showing posters of Assad. If the pictures are pretty random, this one requires a pause. Just a random wire hanging in the foreground, it’s suggestive of a noose. Call it photographic wishful thinking?
via: Newsweek slideshow: Big Brother is Watching You.
(photo: Nicolas Righetti / Rezo)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
One of the saddest photos to come out of Syria recently. The caption reads body of a man, but it looks like a boy to me.
via The New York Times Lens Blog
(photo credit: Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse—Getty Images caption: Syrians carried the body of a man killed in violence in the northwestern Idlib region. Three soldiers were killed and seven others wounded by a bomb at the southern entrance to the city of Idlib, according to the official SANA news agency.)
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