Unicef has condemned Sonny Bill Williams post featuring extremely graphic photos of two dead children.
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“This is reality for these children”. During his time travelling with the organization, the athlete met with a number of families who had fled their homes in Syria to seek safety.
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“What did these children do to deserve this?” he wrote alongside the pictures of the bloodied bodies.
He asked people to spare a thought for “the innocent lives lost every day in war”.
Other followers defended the sports star.
Olivia Wall said: ‘@SonnyBWilliams a little too much don’t you think?’ The truth must be revealed.
Sammi said the tweet, which has attracted more than 700 re-tweets, was “good for raising awareness”.
“Everyone’s mindset is to feel that refugees are a problem, but it’s more than that”.
“Children have a right under a United Nations convention to how their image is portrayed and it is our joint responsibility to give children this right in death”.
“This is not a UNICEF process. It certainly wasn’t something that he consulted us about and they weren’t images that he’d taken on the trip with us”.
“Although I sympathise w ur reasons for posting this, it’s not wise”.
‘From a point of view of UNICEF, we wouldn’t post a photo like that UNICEF would not put a child in the position Sonny Bill has.
Williams posted the images from his official Twitter account after touring war-stricken camps in Lebanon as a UNICEF ambassador.
There is no questioning the fact that he should have added some sort of warning for his unassuming social media followers.
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