OPINION

To retweet or not: The horror of a picture

News, Peter Bouckaert, Published on 06/09/2015

» I thought long and hard before I retweeted the photo of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi. It shows the lifeless toddler, lying face down on a popular Turkish beach, one of 11 Syrians who have almost certainly died as they tried to reach safety in Europe by boarding a smuggler’s boat. Instead they ended up as the latest victims of Europe’s paltry response in the face of a growing crisis.