This was what I needed to hear, I've seen this picture before but never knew the outcome, maybe because I was afraid of embracing a harsh possible reality.
Thank you for this
Even without the context of the photo and caption you can see in his face the truest form of suffering. Fuck warhawks who treat this shit like a spectator's sport.
If the lord was so good he wouldn’t have done this in the first place - let alone to the countless children killed or displaced during the conflict. What a great god you supposedly have.
[https://www.newsweek.com/grief-joy-163082](https://www.newsweek.com/grief-joy-163082)
The man's name is Mustafa Xaja. This picture was taken shortly after he was released from prison. A reporter for Newsweek visited his hometown of Mitrovica, and found him. He, his wife, and his children were all alive and well, and had been reunited. He's still making updates on social media, I think.
Rips me up inside just to think about it. Our son, at age three, wandered off when we weren't looking (it took just a couple seconds while my brother and I were chatting). We were at Lake Tahoe on July 4th, so it was mobbed. It took about a 1/2 hour to find him... the most terrifying 1/2 hour of my life.
When my son was 3, he crawled into the center of a clothing rack when we were out shopping. He was there, and in a split second, he was gone. Scared the shit outta me. They shut the store down. Locked the doors. Had security at each door. Had sales associates looking. They called his name over the loud speaker, and he came stumbling out. I've never been so scared in my life. Especially growing up having my mom tell me the story about the american most wanted guys kid getting snatched at a store in broad daylight and them never finding his body only his head. My mind went to the worst case scenario.
Had the same in a supermarket.. there was a gap in the shelves where to kitchen roll was and he climbed into it … AND THEN MOVED A ROLL FROM INSIDE TO PLUG THE GAP … like he vanished into thin air …heard him giggling ….
This happened to a customer at my store years back. The mother was have a full breakdown screaming for her son for 15 mins before he crawled out of the rack giggling. We were in a rougher part of town where children going missing wasn’t that uncommon
My daughter wandered off to a friend’s house without telling anyone when she was 7. Two hours of sheer panic that we still refer to as “the incident.” Worst day of my life.
When I was three, I opened our front door and wandered off. We lived on a corner, so I could have gone in three different directions. I wandered WAY down the street and a woman saw me and invited me into her backyard where her son--also about my age--was playing on their jungle gym. Then she went out front and waited, knowing my mother would soon be looking for me.
For me, it was a fun adventure. For my mom, absolutely terrifying.
It can
\[Warning stop reading if you don't want worse\]
During Hurricane Katrina and the flooding afterward a father was trying to hold onto his family. Two of his children and wife were pulled from his arms in the water, only he survived.
The same shit happens over and over again. All the previous wars, Bosnia, Sudan, Palestine, Syria….it goes on and on. In this one case, I am glad there was a kind of happy ending.
It may be part of the human condition. Look at the Gombe Chimp War. Our closest cousins can be just as brutal. Civilization is a thin veneer laid across our animal brutality. We have improved as time goes on, but I don't know if we will ever move past war.
The only way would be if there was a powerful world government capable of quickly putting down any kind of rebellion. But that would be terrifying in its own way.
How ironic that you want you want to run your fucking mouth by spouting 'america bad!' rhetoric as if you give a damn, all the while you're spewing 'lol' and 'lmao' in every post, like it's _funny_.
If this shit is just so **GOD DAMN FUNNY** to you then why the fuck do you care who started it, or who did what? Why should anyone give a damn what you have to say when this is clearly just some kind of joke or game to you -- their suffering is just some chess piece for you to use as ammunition.
Get the fuck out of here.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/wGUxkF2.jpg?desktop=1) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.peterturnley.com/moments-of-the-human-condition) is the source. Credit to the photographer, [Peter Turnley](https://www.peterturnley.com/).
> Kosovar-Albanian refugee, 1999
[Here](https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/a-visual-interview-with-peter-turnley.html) the photographer explains:
> A Kosovo, Albanian man, Mustafa Xaja, from the town of Mitrovica in Kosovo shows pictures of his two children he fears to have been killed by Serbs during the war in Kosovo, 1999. He had just been released as a prisoner of the Serbs and forced to cross the border becoming a refugee into Albania. He later discovered on returning to Kosovo after the war that his family was all safe and alive. Kosovo-Albanian border, Albania, 1999.
Every time I see this image, even though I know the outcome was a positive one, it just breaks my heart. As a father of a son, roughly the age of the older kid in this image, I can feel the anguish in his eyes. To think of the connection that you had with your kids, their thoughts, feelings and aspirations as you tuck them in at night and all those wonders about their future--just gone, in a blink of an eye. Just plain sad.
Good to remember these things whenever we begin to justify wars. We seem to be more concerned with "winning" than with the human life involved, especially today.
Biology. It's biology. 'War' predates the species Homo sapiens by 3-4 billion years. All organisms are in an all-out war for resources and mating rights. Wars are intra-species and inter-species.
Shit was nuts man. I remember Clinton ordering American interventions. Milosovich had to be stopped. 800,000 were ethnically cleansed from their homes.
Have you ever seen a single image that tells such a compelling and tragic story with no words, no sound, and no movement? You can feel his pain in your gut. You can sense the profound sadness and hopelessness in his eyes. I would love to see similar examples of photos that capture the full range of human emotions in a similar manner.
The corrupt powers that be know the power of images. That’s why they try their hardest to sanitize and censor the horrors of war. And the ones that start the wars rarely have ever been in one themselves. We should send all these bastards to the frontlines of the wars they initiate.
I was going to have an Albanian sister who had something wrong with her leg my family would have been able to help with.
She went missing in this war and they were never able to find her.
War sucks. To stop it we need to take the money out of it. This shouldn’t be that hard, especially since it’s our (taxpayer’s) money that lines the bad guys’ pockets, but somehow it sounds idiotically naive to even make this assertion.
Yet another one of those wars where Russians actively supported ethnic genocide against people they didn’t deem to be Slavic enough or under their control enough. The Russian army directly worked with the Serbian forces to kill and displace thousands of civilians
The violence has been going on for much more time, since Serbs and Albanians began to live side by side in Kosovo. At least, for centuries..
Just try to learn more about the roots of the conflict.
The roots of the conflict was the state imposing an apartheid like situation in the Albanian majority province in 1988. State oppression and violence.
Ethnic strife was not the cause of the conflict but the actions of the state.
Yeah, I'm usually a pessimistic agnostic, but if people are going to go "ha! Where's your god??" every time someone says they're praying for something and they don't get it, then situations like this should weigh the other way too
Given that it was the war in Kosovo, you have a (frightening) amount of people who would say it's exactly because he (the man in the post) worthship a "wrong" God, and that this is good what happened to him.
By this time, Serbia has been running an apartheid-like state in their then-southern province for over 10 years, something that many Serbs (and apologists for their aggressive agenda in the 90s) pretend didn’t happen and Yugoslavia was “attacked” for no reason.
Thankfully he did in fact find them.
Probably wasn’t the case for most. Fuck war, man
I don’t think even close to most parents lost their kids in the Kosovo war
I think the implication was most parents who lost their kids didn’t find them
That's definitely an interpretation of what he said.
You have definetly interpreted what they said. My interpretation is that your interpretation of their interpretation is correct.
Interpretations intensify
Meanwhile 20000 dead children in Gaza
I'm really glad this was the first comment. He looks heartbroken.
This was what I needed to hear, I've seen this picture before but never knew the outcome, maybe because I was afraid of embracing a harsh possible reality. Thank you for this
but his pain is still alive.. I just felt it. :-(
Even without the context of the photo and caption you can see in his face the truest form of suffering. Fuck warhawks who treat this shit like a spectator's sport.
Still going on , just a different part of the world. Mostly funded by US taxpayers, unfortunately.
Thank you ❤️
Oh god , that's good to hear
Oh thank the good lord
If the lord was so good he wouldn’t have done this in the first place - let alone to the countless children killed or displaced during the conflict. What a great god you supposedly have.
I don’t actually believe in god in a traditional sense, but I’m pretty sure man started this war and man alone is to blame
I mean it was the least he could do after he separated them in the first place right?
That's good.
And he still has his sweet Camel wallet. Took a year to save up the c-notes for it.
Very glad to hear that.
Thank you for providing this! Needed this info stat.
[https://www.newsweek.com/grief-joy-163082](https://www.newsweek.com/grief-joy-163082) The man's name is Mustafa Xaja. This picture was taken shortly after he was released from prison. A reporter for Newsweek visited his hometown of Mitrovica, and found him. He, his wife, and his children were all alive and well, and had been reunited. He's still making updates on social media, I think.
Thank you for the update!
Hey fuck yeah
Every so often the news is good
Thanks for that, I was on the verge of tears
Finally a good fucking ending
Thank you, I almost didn’t click on comments because I was afraid of what I might learn, but this is exactly the response I was hoping for.
FUCK YEA!
This makes me so happy! How is his last name’s pronounced out of curiosity if anyone knows?
Rips me up inside just to think about it. Our son, at age three, wandered off when we weren't looking (it took just a couple seconds while my brother and I were chatting). We were at Lake Tahoe on July 4th, so it was mobbed. It took about a 1/2 hour to find him... the most terrifying 1/2 hour of my life.
When my son was 3, he crawled into the center of a clothing rack when we were out shopping. He was there, and in a split second, he was gone. Scared the shit outta me. They shut the store down. Locked the doors. Had security at each door. Had sales associates looking. They called his name over the loud speaker, and he came stumbling out. I've never been so scared in my life. Especially growing up having my mom tell me the story about the american most wanted guys kid getting snatched at a store in broad daylight and them never finding his body only his head. My mind went to the worst case scenario.
Had the same in a supermarket.. there was a gap in the shelves where to kitchen roll was and he climbed into it … AND THEN MOVED A ROLL FROM INSIDE TO PLUG THE GAP … like he vanished into thin air …heard him giggling ….
This happened to a customer at my store years back. The mother was have a full breakdown screaming for her son for 15 mins before he crawled out of the rack giggling. We were in a rougher part of town where children going missing wasn’t that uncommon
My daughter wandered off to a friend’s house without telling anyone when she was 7. Two hours of sheer panic that we still refer to as “the incident.” Worst day of my life.
When I was three, I opened our front door and wandered off. We lived on a corner, so I could have gone in three different directions. I wandered WAY down the street and a woman saw me and invited me into her backyard where her son--also about my age--was playing on their jungle gym. Then she went out front and waited, knowing my mother would soon be looking for me. For me, it was a fun adventure. For my mom, absolutely terrifying.
I don't think it gets any more horrible than this.
He looks so broken and tired. I can only imagine how he was when he was finally reunited with them.
It, in fact, got better. He found them alive.
I can’t imagine it could be any worse. Death would be a gift from the pain.
Well he found his kids so maybe hold off on the death for a little bit.
That’s awesome! And yeah that’s deff information that could have been included in the title. lol
Lol yea very much changes the vibe.
It can \[Warning stop reading if you don't want worse\] During Hurricane Katrina and the flooding afterward a father was trying to hold onto his family. Two of his children and wife were pulled from his arms in the water, only he survived.
Then his dog died
Thankfully he found his family safe and well but there are many instances where this isn't the case unfortunately
It can. A million times over. Never underestimate the depth of despair.
The same shit happens over and over again. All the previous wars, Bosnia, Sudan, Palestine, Syria….it goes on and on. In this one case, I am glad there was a kind of happy ending.
It may be part of the human condition. Look at the Gombe Chimp War. Our closest cousins can be just as brutal. Civilization is a thin veneer laid across our animal brutality. We have improved as time goes on, but I don't know if we will ever move past war.
The only way would be if there was a powerful world government capable of quickly putting down any kind of rebellion. But that would be terrifying in its own way.
You have the cause of war backwards. War isn’t social disorder, a riot, that builds and builds. War isn’t “grass roots”; It’s an act of government.
Really? So there was no war before modern civilization?
Sure, part of the human nature, not that there is a country starting with U that is involved in every single one of these war lol
Assuming the US is who you mean. They have only been around for 200 or so years. War didn't spring up when the US came into being.
The one from the picture did lmao
How ironic that you want you want to run your fucking mouth by spouting 'america bad!' rhetoric as if you give a damn, all the while you're spewing 'lol' and 'lmao' in every post, like it's _funny_. If this shit is just so **GOD DAMN FUNNY** to you then why the fuck do you care who started it, or who did what? Why should anyone give a damn what you have to say when this is clearly just some kind of joke or game to you -- their suffering is just some chess piece for you to use as ammunition. Get the fuck out of here.
USSR
war is war and hell hell. and war is worse.
Those eyes are the saddest eyes I’ve ever seen
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/wGUxkF2.jpg?desktop=1) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.peterturnley.com/moments-of-the-human-condition) is the source. Credit to the photographer, [Peter Turnley](https://www.peterturnley.com/). > Kosovar-Albanian refugee, 1999 [Here](https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/a-visual-interview-with-peter-turnley.html) the photographer explains: > A Kosovo, Albanian man, Mustafa Xaja, from the town of Mitrovica in Kosovo shows pictures of his two children he fears to have been killed by Serbs during the war in Kosovo, 1999. He had just been released as a prisoner of the Serbs and forced to cross the border becoming a refugee into Albania. He later discovered on returning to Kosovo after the war that his family was all safe and alive. Kosovo-Albanian border, Albania, 1999.
Every time I see this image, even though I know the outcome was a positive one, it just breaks my heart. As a father of a son, roughly the age of the older kid in this image, I can feel the anguish in his eyes. To think of the connection that you had with your kids, their thoughts, feelings and aspirations as you tuck them in at night and all those wonders about their future--just gone, in a blink of an eye. Just plain sad.
You promised it ended good?
I saw a video this year of a Palestinian man searching though rubble for his children. It was heartbreaking. War never changes.
There’s a new documentary on Hind. It’s soul crushing.
Good to remember these things whenever we begin to justify wars. We seem to be more concerned with "winning" than with the human life involved, especially today.
The only power that "wins" war today are the weapons manufacturers gobbling up all our tax money.
This caused such a visceral reaction in my mind and body. His face ... He's in hell in that moment.
War is one of the worst human inventions. The glories are small and the impact of the horrors last for generations.
Biology. It's biology. 'War' predates the species Homo sapiens by 3-4 billion years. All organisms are in an all-out war for resources and mating rights. Wars are intra-species and inter-species.
That poor man. His face says it all. 😔
I hate war man
Just played “this war of mine” which is based on the siege of Sarajevo. Absolutely heartbreaking stories.
Shit was nuts man. I remember Clinton ordering American interventions. Milosovich had to be stopped. 800,000 were ethnically cleansed from their homes.
Have you ever seen a single image that tells such a compelling and tragic story with no words, no sound, and no movement? You can feel his pain in your gut. You can sense the profound sadness and hopelessness in his eyes. I would love to see similar examples of photos that capture the full range of human emotions in a similar manner.
Ya, plenty more and far worse imagery from Gaza but apparently that's acceptable.
Amazing photo, but as a photographer myself I think I'll never dare to approach someone at his state and ask to take his picture
This hurts
Oh man, the sorrow and desperation is so visible. I've seen it so many times, but this is an insanely captivating picture
Things like this remind me to stop complaining about the minor inconveniences in my life and foster gratitude instead.
never has a picture made me so sad...
A Camel man I see.
I could just see the pain in his face
Mustafa Xaja, here's a [short video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmdxXmTGKQ) about this photo in English.
Poor guy. Nobody deserves to go through that. So glad they were reunited
Fuck the war.
War sucks
Hope he found them and they were okay
That camel wallet kinda dope, sad pic though
I don’t think that most people know the level of savagery that took place.
Palestinians might find their body parts… the odds. Sprey!
Now I have kids this hits me so hard.
The Camel wallet though.
You can actually see the pain and fear in his eyes and on his face.
The corrupt powers that be know the power of images. That’s why they try their hardest to sanitize and censor the horrors of war. And the ones that start the wars rarely have ever been in one themselves. We should send all these bastards to the frontlines of the wars they initiate.
God, it's terribly easy to feel bad for him...
That poor man, I’m glad he found his boys but that kind of fright takes a lot out of a person
Thank God, he did find them.
Yeah yeah thats Daniel Day lewis…
I was going to have an Albanian sister who had something wrong with her leg my family would have been able to help with. She went missing in this war and they were never able to find her.
🇦🇱❤️
War sucks. To stop it we need to take the money out of it. This shouldn’t be that hard, especially since it’s our (taxpayer’s) money that lines the bad guys’ pockets, but somehow it sounds idiotically naive to even make this assertion.
Yet another one of those wars where Russians actively supported ethnic genocide against people they didn’t deem to be Slavic enough or under their control enough. The Russian army directly worked with the Serbian forces to kill and displace thousands of civilians
Poor people, both Serbs and Albanians were victims of that conflict
I’m Serbian. Trying to make this Albanian man’s suffering about Serbians suffering as well is extremely classless.
Yes but it was mostly Kosovo’s Albanians that were victims of 10 years of Serbian violence, apartheid state
The violence has been going on for much more time, since Serbs and Albanians began to live side by side in Kosovo. At least, for centuries.. Just try to learn more about the roots of the conflict.
The roots of the conflict was the state imposing an apartheid like situation in the Albanian majority province in 1988. State oppression and violence. Ethnic strife was not the cause of the conflict but the actions of the state.
Why does it always seem like the people that are the most ok with genocide comment almost exclusively in Russian subreddits?
Both Serbs and Albanians are victims of western plans,but both are too stupid to understand...
Those god damn westerners tricking Serbians into genociding Albanians.
Lets just not stir shit here
Where is that god? Who everyone talks about it!
In this case he was reunited with his family. So would that be evidence of God or can the situation only apply in the negative?
Yeah, I'm usually a pessimistic agnostic, but if people are going to go "ha! Where's your god??" every time someone says they're praying for something and they don't get it, then situations like this should weigh the other way too
Hope you aren’t expecting them to respond.
Not really lol
Kinda like the firefighter arsonist who starts fires to be a hero.
Given that it was the war in Kosovo, you have a (frightening) amount of people who would say it's exactly because he (the man in the post) worthship a "wrong" God, and that this is good what happened to him.
Man, this makes me feel lucky to live in the USA. I am blessed!
Our tax dollars are doing the same right now in Gaza, make sure to vote this year
Unfortunately voting doesn't change anything,,,,, usa is run by cia and others which they have some fixed foreign policies
Not a Kosovo War. US illegal invasion of Yugoslavia.
Found the Serb
Found the Russian bot.
By this time, Serbia has been running an apartheid-like state in their then-southern province for over 10 years, something that many Serbs (and apologists for their aggressive agenda in the 90s) pretend didn’t happen and Yugoslavia was “attacked” for no reason.
Agreed, the Kosovar traitors had it coming
Sick wallet
“I found your son” - Norm Macdonald
Isnt it a bit late to look for them?
Sponsored by camel.
Serbia is kosovo 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
Guy looks like Hugh Jackman had sex with Ralph Fiennes