Boy on Beach: Alan Kurdi Syrian Family’s Tragedy


Every life had value. He who thinks the suffering of others far away is not their problem. One day they will learn. War and hate will find the all of us. Time for the leaders of this world to ensure every life is safe and sound. If we spend 10% of our war budget for water, food and medicine. We could feed and shelter every person in our world.

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Syrian Family’s Tragedy Goes Beyond Iconic Image of Boy on Beach

By ANNE BARNARD. DEC. 27, 2015

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Hivrun Kurdi, an aunt of Alan’s, with her children in a refugee shelter in Bramsche, Germany, this month. 
Weeks after Alan drowned, Hivrun and her children made the same perilous sea journey from Turkey to Greece.
Mauricio Lima for The New York Times

ISTANBUL — When Alan Kurdi’s tiny body washed up on a beach in Turkey, forcing the world to grasp the pain of Syria’s refugees, the 2-year-old boy was just one member of a family on the run, scattered by nearly five years of upheaval.

As a Turkish officer lifted the boy from the shallow waves at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, one of Alan’s teenage cousins was alone on a bus in Hungary, fleeing the fighting back home in Damascus.

An aunt was stuck in…

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