[66], Prayer events and moments of silence were held by various organisations including those held by NGOs. [5] Since the Kurdi family had reportedly been trying to reach Canada, his death and the wider refugee crisis became an issue in the 2015 Canadian federal election. For example, a 2010 study in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo found that almost one-quarter of men in selected conflict-affected territories had experienced sexual violence: an estimated 760,000 men. [3] Abdullah Kurdi said that the Canadian government denied his application for asylum and that they were responsible for the tragedy. But much more is needed to prevent this violence and to provide support and care to the men and boys who have been sexually victimised. Local media reported that the Syrian boy worked in a juice shop and that his Lebanese mother, who is divorced from his Syrian father, owns a vegetable shop. He told me how armed men had entered his village and raped him. It is everywhere. [33] She later returned to Baghdad and said her dead children's bodies had not been correctly prepared for burial and called on Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to grant her family asylum so they could escape the Islamic State.
We’ll send you latest news updates through the day. [16], In the early hours of 2 September 2015, Kurdi and his family boarded a small plastic or rubber inflatable boat,[17] which capsized about five minutes after leaving Bodrum in Turkey. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. There have been reports of returning refugees being detained, conscripted into the army, or even killed by the Assad regime forces in Syria. and At this time of year I would like to ask you all to think about the pain of fathers, mothers and children who are seeking peace and security. At a large refugee camp in Jordan, I met a group of women who were eager to talk about the issue. The two men moved the bodies from the water, where Kurdi was later photographed by a Turkish press photographer. Twitter users demanded the most severe punishment for the three young men, with some even suggesting the death penalty on them. Alan Kurdi's father, Abdullah Kurdi, has stated in some of his interviews that the inflatable boat became uncontrollable as its engine had failed, with the 'captain' abandoning it and everyone else. Kinda Alloush, a Syrian actress, said on Twitter that the crime was terrifying and painful to the extreme. Joe Maalouf, a representative of the Union told Syria TV that the Lebanese judiciary identified the suspects and began an investigation. All rights reserved. Some Turkish sources claimed that in his first interview with the Doğan News Agency, he gives a different account of the event; he also states that following two unsuccessful attempts to cross into the Greek island Kos, his family provided its own boat with its own means. The times are suffocating. [15] The Kurdi family tried to obtain entry to Canada under a private sponsorship program whereby groups of five people may also sponsor an individual or family. The boy is seen trying to escape several times in the video. LGBTI people are particularly at risk of sexual violence in detention and as refugees. © Al Nisr Publishing LLC 2020. They were too afraid to report these to the police, who could assault them again, or even arrest them under laws addressing “public morality” or “unnatural practices”. We cannot think of any family who doesn’t have someone who was detained and sexually abused. [44], The death of Kurdi and reports that his family had been trying to ultimately reach Canada had an immediate impact on domestic Canadian politics. [6], It was later stated on Syrian radio that the Kurdi family paid $5,860 for their four spaces on the boat, which had twelve other passengers on it despite being only about five metres long.
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