micdotcom:Powerful portraits of centenarian refugees show the real cost of war in Syria“They s
micdotcom:Powerful portraits of centenarian refugees show the real cost of war in Syria“They say that if God loves you, he will let you live a long life,” said Ahmad, a Syrian refugee in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. “But I wish that He loved me a little less. I wish that I didn’t live long enough to see my country in ruins.”The 102-year-old is among the few centenarians who sat for a portrait taken by a UN refugee agency photographer. They’ve witnessed their villages and cities crumble from the ongoing civil war that, now in its third year, has displaced more than 3 million Syrians across the region with 100,000 refugees registered each month.For Syria’s centenarians, the crisis has now eclipsed everything in the last 100 years. | Follow micdotcom -- source link
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