Europe’s refugee crisis:Powerful pictures move international community

Photograph of a three-year old Syrian boy found who drowned was a chilling reminder of the refugee crisis in Europe as thousands of refugees flee their countries in search of better lives. Whilst the pictures were a horrifying nudge as to the plight of the refugees its exposure on social media gave the global community a sense of what was lost and an insight to the lives of innocent victims of this impending crisis.

 

The distraught father of two young Syrian boys who drowned with their mother prepared to take them back to their home town of Kobani.

Father of drowned Syrian toddlers,Abdullah Kurdi was amidst tears as he stated  “Is there anyone for whom his child is not precious? My children were wonderful. They would wake me up in the morning saying: “Daddy let us play.” Everything is gone now.”

The father went on to express “I just want to sit next to the grave of my children and my wife and rest.”

 

Canadian officials had now offered him citizenship after seeing what had happened but that he declined.

Aid groups and at least 14 senators have called on the US government to take in thousands more Syrian refugees by the end of 2016, amid international outcry prompted by shocking images of a three-year-old boy’s body.

The image was tweeted and re-tweeted thousands of times and prominently shown on Instagram and Twitter sites along with more images attempting to highlight the growing crisis was shared on social media.

A standoff continued into the night as several hundred migrants remained on a train at a small station in Hungary, refusing to disembark and travel to a nearby refugee center.

A train carrying hundreds of migrants from Budapest stopped at the station hours earlier, where they were to be transferred onto buses and taken to a nearby reception center.

But hundreds of them refused to leave the carriages,pleading to be allowed to carry on their journey to Germany.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hungarian police officers wearing protective helmets and carrying truncheons demanded the refugees make their way to a migrant holding center in the town – leading to clashes with those desperate to start a new life in western Europe.

In one particularly harrowing sequence of images a father overcome with emotion tries desperately to protect his wife and child from being taken away – lying down on the tracks in protest before officers dragged them away for their own safety.

 

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