Some of the biggest casualties of war are the lasting effects on innocent children.
While we may want to wrap up and protect kids from the truth, this photo is a stark reminder that there really is no such thing as ‘too young to understand’.
This snap captures the heartbreaking moment a childhood has been torn apart by war.
A photo of a little four-year old girl Hudea, taken at a refugee camp on the Turkish border, shows the frightened face of a child when she mistook a camera for a weapon.
The image has now gone viral after photojournalist Osman Sagirli posted the image to Reddit.
Shot in 2012, Osman met the girl after she fled her home with her mother and three siblings after her father died in a bombing in Hama.
