Today In One Photo 09-03-15

IN ONE PHOTO

By last month, a record 107,500 people — mostly Syrians and Afghans — had risked their lives to enter the European Union, mostly Greece and Turkey. Many of them didn’t make it. Despite the staggering numbers of migrant deaths, the grave human toll of the crisis didn’t seem to set in until this photo surfaced of a Syrian boy washed ashore after fleeing his home. NOTE: The original photo is very sad and rather graphic, so we won’t use it here. Clicking on the link above is up to you — it’s a horrifying, if important, window into the realities of this humanitarian crisis.