Devastating cartoon sums up choices for Syrian children
A political cartoonist has taken Wednesday's devastating photo of a young Syrian boy caught up in the country's civil war and drawn a parallel to another youngster whose photo drew the world's attention to the crisis.
Sudanese scribbler Khalid Albaih took the iconic image of Omran Daqneesh, who was pictured bloodied and dusty in the back of an ambulance as air strikes in Aleppo continued, and compared his plight to that of Aylan Kurdi.
Three-year-old Kurdi was pictured washed up lifeless on a beach in Turkey last September after his family tried to escape the fighting by boat and were pitched mercilessly into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Albaih's cartoon in full presents the two victims side by side with the heading: "Choices for Syrian children."
Daqneesh has the caption "If you stay" while Kurdi has "If you leave."
Albaih refers to himself on his Facebook page as a Sudanese cartoonist living in Doha. His Khartoon! illustrations he describes as "a social and political satire commentary on the Middle East region and the world."
In one sliver of good news from the region, it's since been reported that Daqneesh was discharged from medical care after a few hours and that his parents and siblings have all survived the attack.
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