The saddest photo ever
It is said that a picture paints a thousand words. That one picture has indelibly painted millions and millions of words about the sorry state of the human race.
The photo of the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned off the Turkish coast while his parents were fleeing their war-torn country surely has to be one of the most disturbing images ever published.
Little Aylan Kurdi’s fully clothed body was washed up on the beach after the boat carrying refugees capsized at sea, claiming the lives of people desperately seeking a better life away from the strife in their own country.
Although the photo has evoked shock and dismay in all who saw it, it has once again highlighted the complete disregard certain members of the human race have for each other’s lives.
The power-hungry warmongers and ideologists seem to have only one goal in mind and that is to rule and control at all cost, even though the cost may be, and very often is, innocent human lives.
I find myself thinking how desperate a father or mother must be to take the risk of putting their family on a boat with nothing but the clothes on their backs, knowing full well that the chances of reaching any other country are very slim indeed.
Yet, desperation drives them and thousands of others to take the risk, because their own countrymen have made life impossible in their home country.
They must now seek refuge in a foreign country and begin new lives with nothing at all to their names.
As a journalist I also find myself thinking of the photo-journalist who took the photo of little Aylan.
Yes, the photo tells a very sad story indeed and will probably win an award at some competition or other. But I’m sure awards are the furthest thing from that journalist’s mind. He will have sleepless nights thinking about the disgustingly low levels of regard for human life that some people have sunk to.
It is said that a picture paints a thousand words. That one picture has indelibly painted millions and millions of words about the sorry state of the human race.
Let us hope we will come to our senses.
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