The ultimate injustice one can commit to Aylan Kurdi and his family is to omit the parts of his story which explain why he ended up dead on the beach. The details matter, so please read and share: 1) Abdullah Kurdi, the father, was detained for 5 months in Air Force Intelligence in Damascus. While in detention, he was tortured and his teeth were pulled out. He had to sell his shop in Damascus in order to bribe the officers to let him out. This cost him 5,000,000 Syrian Liras (around $25,000) 2) After he bribed his way out of jail, Abdullah fled to Aleppo with his wife and sons, Aylan and Ghalib. The situation in Aleppo became dangerous due to the constant aerial bombardment, so he fled again to Kobani, his hometown. 3) When ISIS attacked Kobani last year, the family could no longer live in their hometown, so they fled to Turkey. Once in Turkey, the Turkish government did not provide them with assistance, so they paid almost $6,000 to secure 4 spots on a rubber dingy to the Greek island of Kos. 4) While on the boat, rough waters caused the boat to flip. The lifejackets they were given were fake. His sons and wife all drowned in front of his eyes, in his arms. 5) Abdullah Kurdi and his brother wanted to seek refuge in Canada, where their sister lives. However his brother's application was rejected, so then the families decided to pay a smuggler to take them to Greece by boat. After Aylan's photo became a media story, he was reportedly offered citizenship to Canada. But now he doesn't want to go to Canada or Europe anymore. He says he will go bury his family in Kobani and stay there to fight against ISIS, because everything has been taken away from him and he has "nothing to live for." So if the world wants to see no more Aylans on the beach, someone needs to do some combination of the following based on above: (1) stop torture and arbitrary detention by the US backed rebels, (2) stop the regime's aerial bombardment, (3) stop ISIS and US funding of ISIS, (4) stop the wars in the Middle East (5) make traveling to Europe safe, (6) get the world to accept more refugees. Got it? #refugee #refugeeswelcome #aylankurdi #ikonkar

The ultimate injustice one can commit to Aylan Kurdi and his family is to omit the parts of his story which explain why he ended up dead on the beach. The details matter, so please read and share: 1) Abdullah Kurdi, the father, was detained for 5 months in Air Force Intelligence in Damascus. While in detention, he was tortured and his teeth were pulled out. He had to sell his shop in Damascus in order to bribe the officers to let him out. This cost him 5,000,000 Syrian Liras (around $25,000) 2) After he bribed his way out of jail, Abdullah fled to Aleppo with his wife and sons, Aylan and Ghalib. The situation in Aleppo became dangerous due to the constant aerial bombardment, so he fled again to Kobani, his hometown. 3) When ISIS attacked Kobani last year, the family could no longer live in their hometown, so they fled to Turkey. Once in Turkey, the Turkish government did not provide them with assistance, so they paid almost $6,000 to secure 4 spots on a rubber dingy to the Greek island of Kos. 4) While on the boat, rough waters caused the boat to flip. The lifejackets they were given were fake. His sons and wife all drowned in front of his eyes, in his arms. 5) Abdullah Kurdi and his brother wanted to seek refuge in Canada, where their sister lives. However his brother's application was rejected, so then the families decided to pay a smuggler to take them to Greece by boat. After Aylan's photo became a media story, he was reportedly offered citizenship to Canada. But now he doesn't want to go to Canada or Europe anymore. He says he will go bury his family in Kobani and stay there to fight against ISIS, because everything has been taken away from him and he has "nothing to live for." So if the world wants to see no more Aylans on the beach, someone needs to do some combination of the following based on above: (1) stop torture and arbitrary detention by the US backed rebels, (2) stop the regime's aerial bombardment, (3) stop ISIS and US funding of ISIS, (4) stop the wars in the Middle East (5) make traveling to Europe safe, (6) get the world to accept more refugees. Got it? #refugee #refugeeswelcome #ikonkar