This is awful. Regardless of circumstances, this young child (and her siblings) is now an orphan and saw her parents killed right in front of her - that is probably their blood on her too. One of the most horrific pictures I’ve seen in a while - mostly for what it does not show.
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Samar Hassan, 5, screams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town. Parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and son Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Racan, paralyzed from the waist down, was treated later in the U.S. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
hoppersoft on March 20th, 2023 at 11:59 UTC »
Face That Screamed War’s Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later
Her parents were not insurgents. They were driving their kids back from a doctor's appointment.
roytinnn on March 20th, 2023 at 12:10 UTC »
This is awful. Regardless of circumstances, this young child (and her siblings) is now an orphan and saw her parents killed right in front of her - that is probably their blood on her too. One of the most horrific pictures I’ve seen in a while - mostly for what it does not show.
The senselessness of it all is overwhelming.
Spartan2470 on March 20th, 2023 at 14:11 UTC »
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