Face down on a warm beach of a devouring sea, the lifeless Syrian toddler seems to have symbolized the most horrible nightmare of the ultimate human tragedy on the face of the Earth. The water lapping around his little body, playing with his tiny red T-shirt and blue shorts, is the real agony of brutal atrocities inflicted on human beings by human beings. Sleep tight sweetheart, for those who refused to let your dazzling smile enter their world are no less sinful than those who separated you from the wonderland of your childhood. The waves of the ages are incapable of sinking you into oblivion.
The three-year old Syrian boy, identified as Aylan Kurdi , was among 13 Syrian people, including his five-year-old brother, who drowned and washed up on a beach near the resort town of Bodrum, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of the city of Antalya, on Turkey’s idyllic ‘Turquoise Coast’ on Wednesday.
According to Turkish media, the little brothers were from the northern Syrian town of Kobani, the site of fierce fighting between Daesh takfiri terrorists and Kurdish forces earlier this year.
The ill-fated Syrians, fleeing the violence perpetrated by Daesh and trying to seek refuge on the Greek soil, lost their lives after their boats overturned.