They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but this one demands trillions of tears.
The picture above (posted on Twitter by Washington Post Beirut bureau chief Liz Sly) is that of a three year old Syrian-Kurd boy Aylan Kurdi, lying dead on Turkey’s Bodrum beach.
The child is said to be one of the 11 Syrian refugees who drowned after their boats sank in a bid to reach the Greek island of Kos from Turkey.
The picture was released by a Turkish news agency DHA and has gone viral on the social media with netizens shocked to see the true face of migrant crisis.
This is not the first case of a migrant drowning while on way to European shores, as according to International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 2,600 migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean since January this year.
However, this particular picture of the three-year-old Syrian kid, has captured the worldwide attention in a way that will not be easy to forget.
A Twitter user Mustafa al-Najafi @MustafaNajafi also tweeted DHA news agency’s 16-second video clip of the child lying dead on the beached as waves came and retreated.
The heartbreaking picture triggered a plethora of tweets from the netizens who posted their reactions with the hashtag “humanity washed ashore”.
Wednesday saw #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik (that literally means ‘humanity washed ashore’) trending on twitter with many expressing shock and regretting about ‘humanity being dead’.
