Father of drowned Syrian toddlers prepares to take bodies home

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

MUGLA, Turkey (Reuters) - The distraught father of two Syrian toddlers who drowned with their mother and several other migrants as they tried to reach Greece identified their bodies on Thursday and prepared to take them back to their home town of Kobani.

Abdullah Kurdi collapsed in tears after emerging from a morgue in the city of Mugla near Bodrum in Turkey, where the body of his 3-year-old son, Aylan, washed up on Wednesday.

A photograph of the boy's tiny body in a bright red T-shirt and dark shorts, face-down in the surf, appeared in newspapers around the world, prompting sympathy and outrage at the perceived inaction of developed nations in helping refugees.

Aylan's 5-year-old brother, Galip, and mother, Rehan, 35, were among 12 people, including other children, who died after two boats capsized while trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. Poor babies. Heartbreaking.

[janlyn]

2. This hurt my heart more than words can say!

I posted a picture of the officer holding Aylan on facebook, because I think people need to wake up to the horrible things going on all over the world! The news we see is so sanitized, or not seen at all. Once I knew his name I reposted, so that people would know he was someones cherished child!!
It makes it real!!

[onecaliberal]

3. Why are these people not being helped?!?

[Fred Sanders]

4. Massive negligence by rich countries who had pledged to assist all legitimate refugees. From a

war situation created mainly by the same Rich countries funding the civil wars that caught these innocents in power hunger men's dreams of political and religious domination. War is hell for civilians and children and women most of all.