‘HE LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE SKELETON’
Apr 01, 2021
4 minutes
COMPILED BY DENNIS CAVERNELIS
INSTAGRAM/@LANDOFHOPE
IN PHOTOGRAPHS he looks like any other happy boy, his skin glowing with health, a grin plastered across his face.
There’s one of him all dressed up in a three-piece suit, ready to attend a wedding. In an earlier picture he’s a toddler wearing bright red shorts, chunky white trainers and a little backpack as he prepares for preschool.
In the first picture ever taken of him, however, he looks nothing like this. He is naked, emaciated and barely alive, preparing to sip from a bottle of water held up to him by Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Lovén.
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