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A broken Abdullah Kurdi buried his two toddlers and his wife in their hometown of Kobani, Syria even as thousands of his fellow refugees
continued on their harrowing
quest for safety -
marching hundreds of miles from Hungary to Austria and Germany, eventually helped along by buses provided by Hungary; breaking out of camps where they charged they were mistreated;
barricading themselves on "Freedom Trains"
grounded at the station. Some sprayed shaving cream messages on the sides of trains - "No Camps. No Hungary. Freedom" - while many wrote and held high their plaintive signs: "Help, Europe...We Want
Germany...S.O.S....Here Big Guantanamo...Where Is the World?" The first refugees have now begun
reaching Austria and Germany after officials there opened borders.
Kurdi, meanwhile, broke down at a Turkish morgue after claiming the bodies of his
drowned family - his wife Rehan, five-year-old son Galip, and three-year-old son Aylan, whose small body washed ashore became the image that for many made a formerly abstract refugee crisis suddenly, grimly real. Having
left their battered hometown in hopes of reaching Greece and ultimately Canada, Kurdi
said, "Now I don't want anything. Even if you give me all the countries in the world, I don't want them... My kids were the most beautiful children in the world. They are all gone now...We want the whole world to see this. Let this be the last."
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