In this week’s most shared tweets: The photograph ignited shock, outrage, and hand-wringing across the globe over a refugee crisis the likes of which have not been seen since World War II. But one year on, the image of Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body, though still fresh in the collective memory, has yet to generate meaningful action, and the death toll in the Mediterranean continues unabated.
Also this week, the Assad regime relentlessly bombs civilians; a dictator dies leaving behind one of the largest political prisoner populations in the world; the burkini ban controversy; and a ‘dirty dozen’ collection of cluster bombs.
