The photo of a Syrian child wearing the jersey of FC Barcelona has gone viral on the social media, stirring widespread outrage online at the brutality of the Syrian regime’s army.
When Ahmad Othman, 14, was killed on May 2, his photo was published by #Tweet4SyrianChild, a Twitter campaign that highlights the suffering of Syrian children.
The photo soon went viral after the Spanish daily newspaper Sport, close the FC Barcelona, republished the picture. Thousands of Barcelona fans then began sharing and commenting on Othman’s photo.
Othman was killed along with his family after Bashar al-Assad's forces shelled the town of al-Baydah near Banyas last month.
Othman’s relatives said he used to wear Barcelona’s jersey every day and never missed a match by the Spanish club, his relatives said, according to Syrian opposition media. He even dreamed of becoming a famous footballer like Lionel Messi, one Facebook page belonging to the opposition said.
Also Read
-
Video: U.N. says at least 93,000 people killed in Syria
There are 92,901 documented cases of people killed in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2013, Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for ... Middle East -
Thousands of Jihadists join war in Syria
For a year now extremist groups have been urging Muslim youths to join the war in Syria. They did in fact succeed in bringing in hundreds of different ... Opinion -
Children used as human shields in Syria war, says U.N.
Children are being used as sniper targets and human shields in the Syria war, the United Nations said Wednesday, in a report that added Mali to its ... Middle East -
Syria’s long road to Geneva
As the proxy war sets in fully in Syria with equal determination among all sides to change the calculations on the ground, the hopes for a major ... Opinion -
Lebanese army warns Syria over missile fire, several injured
A Syrian helicopter fired three missiles Wednesday on a Lebanese border town whose majority Sunni residents back the revolt against President Bashar ... Middle East -
Report: Iran gets ‘verbal invitation’ to Syria conference
An Iranian deputy foreign minister said his country had been invited to a planned international peace conference in Geneva aimed at ending the war in ... Middle East -
British far-right leader on Syria trip
The leader of the British National Party (BNP), Nick Griffin, is on a “fact-finding visit” to Damascus as part of a delegation of ... Middle East
