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hubag bohol · « **on:** May 29, 2015, 01:48:30 PM »

A four-year-old boy comforts his 2-year-old sister.

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hubag bohol · « **Reply #1 on:** May 31, 2015, 11:55:34 AM »

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islander · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:32:08 PM »

i'm sad and relieved at the same time that there's something else to this photo...

Haunting 'Nepal quake victims' photo from Vietnam

By Nga Pham
BBC News
4 May 2015

Two Hmong children in Can Ty, Ha Giang province, Vietnam (2007). These two children have been described online as Burmese orphans and victims of Syria's civil war

This must be one of the most shared photos on social media in the wake of the earthquake in Nepal last week.

The haunting picture of two young children hugging each other, the little girl clinging to her brother as if to look for shelter from the outside world, the boy's scared eyesâ€¦

It creates a truly heart-wrenching image.

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islander · « **Reply #3 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:33:45 PM »

In less than a week, this photo has gone viral on Facebook and Twitter, credited as "Two-year-old sister protected by four-year-old brother in Nepal".

There have been attempts to look for the brother and sister among the earthquake's victims, even calls for donations.

Only, the photo was taken nearly a decade ago in northern Vietnam.
Its real author, Vietnamese photographer Na Son Nguyen, told the BBC: "I took this picture in October 2007 in Can Ty, a remote village in Ha Giang province".

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islander · « **Reply #4 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:34:29 PM »

"I was passing through the village but was stopped by the scene of two Hmong children playing in front of their house while their parents were away working in the field."

"The little girl, probably two years old, cried in the presence of a stranger so the boy, who was maybe three years old or so, hugged his sister to comfort her."

"It was both moving and cute, so I quickly made a shot."

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islander · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:35:10 PM »

Na Son published the photo on his personal blog and was surprised to discover three years ago that it had been shared among Vietnamese Facebook users as a photo of "abandoned orphans".

"Some people even weaved intricate tales about the kids," he said, "like their mother had died and their father left them".

It didn't stop there. He later found the photo with credits such as "two Burmese orphans" and even "victims of the civil war in Syria".

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islander · « **Reply #6 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:36:26 PM »

Na Son said he made efforts to clarify and to claim copyright of the photo but with little success.

"This is perhaps my most shared photo but unfortunately in the wrong context."

http://www.bbc.com/

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islander · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:38:35 PM »

Na Son published the photo on his personal blog and was surprised to discover three years ago that it had been shared among Vietnamese Facebook users as a photo of "abandoned orphans".

"Some people even weaved intricate tales about the kids," he said, "like their mother had died and their father left them".

It didn't stop there. He later found the photo with credits such as "two Burmese orphans" and even "victims of the civil war in Syria".

well, it's nice to believe in things we want to believe in...

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islander · « **Reply #8 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:40:14 PM »

In less than a week, this photo has gone viral on Facebook and Twitter, credited as "Two-year-old sister protected by four-year-old brother in Nepal".

There have been attempts to look for the brother and sister among the earthquake's victims, even calls for donations.

can't blame them for their sincerity. given the chance, i would have looked for these kids myself just to find out if they're all right.

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islander · « **Reply #9 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:41:54 PM »

Na Son said he made efforts to clarify and to claim copyright of the photo but with little success.

"This is perhaps my most shared photo but unfortunately in the wrong context."

at least it's a great photo.

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hubag bohol · « **Reply #10 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:48:38 PM »

Well, at least the photo was well-shared enough to deter some plagiarist from claiming it as his own and entering it in a contest, as what happened a couple of years ago or so when such a photo won the grand prize!

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islander · « **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:57:22 PM »

Well, at least the photo was well-shared enough to deter some plagiarist from claiming it as his own and entering it in a contest, as what happened a couple of years ago or so when such a photo won the grand prize!

let's wait and see what a three-year-old filipino boy today will do with this image 15 years from now.

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islander · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:58:08 PM »

my uneducated guess: he might claim he's that boy.

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hubag bohol · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2015, 01:31:24 PM »

Well, there's a plagiarist, too, born every minute.

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