Are children who drown in Bodrum more valuable than those who perish in Bredjing?
Matthew Hooton discusses his latest column on NBR Radio and on demand on MyNBR Radio.
Fri, 11 Sep 2015
The photograph of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy lying dead on the beach in Bodrum, will rightly win a Pulitzer Prize. It touched the world in a way the drowning of 400 African refugees between Libya and Italy back on April 14 did not, nor the further 700 who drowned the following week.
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