He looks as though he is asleep — perhaps taking a nap before running off to play with his friends. But he’s not asleep. He’s dead. He died because of a war the world can’t or won’t solve and immigration policies that say: We don’t care.
The photograph of the drowned little Syrian boy who washed up on a Turkish beach (the image is not included in this post but is available here) has gone viral on social media, turning him into a symbol of the suffering of Syrians and their desperate scramble to escape....
.....A video showed the waves lapping against his tiny body, as though even the sea was paying respect. Instead of swallowing him, never to be found, it carried him gently ashore and deposited him on the sand — where he would be found by other people, the only ones who can do anything to stop this from happening in the future, to other children.
There are some signs that the picture is making a difference.
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