The haunting image of little Aylan Kurdi’s body lying face down on a beach in Turkey tore into the world’s collective conscience and sparked an outpouring of sympathy for refugees fleeing the bloodbath of war-torn Syria.
The three-year-old unwittingly left an unfortunate legacy of the current troubles in Syria, with the mass migration of Syrian refugees the worst exodus since the Rwandan genocide two decades ago.
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