I have, often. But not this time.

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I'm sorry if it's shocking, but the world needs to be shocked by this.

Not shocked, just immensely saddened. The people that have been voted into power in the EU need to do something. The EU is a big huge mess when it comes to migrants.

That poor liitle boy lost his life because his parents were desperate, I am thankful, I have never been anywhere near that desperate. It's terribly sad.

They should let a few million into Canada. There's loads of space here plus I bet the quality of kebab shops would get better.

Poor little mite, it's too sad - and from what I read his brother died as well as his Mother and another woman on the same boat lost 2 of her children as well. Such sad times, such desperation... how thankful am I that I have never had to make the choice these people have.

I do feel bad when I hear about these sorts of situations, and so many in the world have to live in such desperation. Not sure what the solution is though.

Happens on this side of the world as well, reasons might be different, but the Southern border with Mexico the desert takes a lot of lives each year of desperate people trying to get a better life.

He was 3 and his brother was 5. Very sad indeed. How desperate can these poor people be?

Cameron's attitude and approach to the crisis is depolrable.

My mate back in Bristol says he's misjudged the mood.

Even that woman who attracts publicity - Katie summat? - seems to have shut up about it.

I saw the thread header and thought of this piece, I had seen it earlier and was not shocked by it. People are drowning every day looking for a better life. It's not news, just the fickle hand of fate.

Today the dental hygenist was telling me about fleeing the Taliban; a refugee with her fingers in my mouth, one who could just as easily be dead; many of her female classmates at the medical school in Afghanistan are. One of my daughters worked in the C.A.R, picking and choosing hospital patients from a refugee camp, "the ones who will make good use of a bed by recovering", leaving the ones with inefficient illnesses and injuries to end their days on the floor of an aircraft hanger.

Life is cheap if you're born in the wrong place. That's something we forget in the endless tedious muttering about the quality of life in various first world countries. What's the cheese like in Syria, eh?

It used to be that refugees would flee a war or famine by walking into an adjacent country or across water to the next available piece of land. Now they flee the area, and keep on going until they find the most economically desirable place to live, and with no apparent intention of returning home.

In their shoes I would do the same thing, but it is not viable for any country to take hundreds of thousands of people who have very little to contribute to the country that they end up in.

If blame is to be apportioned, I place a lot of it in the failure of the international community, after several years, to squash, however literally is necessarily, the abhorrent regime that has set itself up straddling the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Why?

Also, the failure of the international community to stop their domestic companies from selling weapons to combatants. Many - most? - of the current refugees are fleeing Western-manufactured bullets, rockets and bombs. The political leaders of too many Western nations are therefore actually responsible for the refugees' plight. Stopping the bombs, bullets and rockets would be one way of stopping the refugees.

Since this is a Canadian forum, it's only reasonable to point out that Canada's Prime Minister is an unapologetic warmonger. Shame on him, and the people who vote for him.

Britain needs to do its fair share in accepting refugees, we open the doors to half a million European migrants, now with a genuine humanitarian crisis Cameron is pulling up the drawbridge on thousands in desperate need.

As Bristol noted, he's misjudged the mood.

B.C. woman tried to sponsor Syrian family members who drowned off Turkey | Globalnews.ca

Appears the family who drowned were trying to come to Canada and had a family member in Canada willing to sponsor them, but the sponsorship was denied.


"Donnelly said he delivered a letter on behalf of Teema Kurdi, Abdullah’s sister, to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander in March but that the sponsorship request was not approved."

I don't like Cameron or his party, but in this case I feel he has got it RIGHT, Pepole in the UK are complaining about the number of immigrants here, amny of these so called refugees are really ecccomonic migrants using the current Syria, afgan, north africa problems to get where they would never be allowed if they tried a legal route. The international laws on asylum seeking is that the assylum seekers must move to the nearest safe country, and for people from these areas the UK and Germany are not the nearest, the vast majority of them should be moving to non EU countries. They look on the EU as a soft touch and think they will get loads of benefits immediately. Most of those from North Africa are just commodities for the trafficers, they charge them a firtune, promise them the earth and crowd them onto inadequate boats knowing that they will either make it across the Med or drown or die on the voyage, it's no concern for them, they've got their money and are waiting for the next people with the money.