These
heartbreaking pictures of the tiny body of a migrant boy who died
alongside his brother and mother on the perilous journey across the
Mediterranean today shocked the world.
Little
Galip, five, and Aylan Kurdi, three, were on an overcrowded dinghy
filled with refugees fleeing the war in Syria when it capsized shortly
into the crossing to the Greek island of Kos.
Pictures
of Aylan’s limp body in the sand and of it being carried by a local
gendarme has come to epitomise the crisis engulfing Europe as a tide of
humanity flees the horrors in the Middle East.
If these extraordinarily powerful images of a dead Syrian child washed up on a beach don’t change Europe’s attitude to refugees, what will?
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