Aunt takes little comfort from human smugglers convicted in the death of family

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Posted March 4, 2016 4:07 pm.

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PORT COQUITLAM (NEWS 1130) – The aunt of a Syrian boy whose lifeless body was captured in a heartbreaking photo takes little comfort in news human smugglers have been sent to jail in his death.

Tima Kurdi of Port Coquitlam says the problem plaguing Syrian migrants is much greater than the two men sentenced today in Turkey.

A photo of Kurdi’s three-year-old nephew, Alan, put a human face on the crisis in the Middle East.

The men sentenced today were convicted of human trafficking, but acquitted of causing drowning deaths through negligence.

Kurdi says smuggling will continue as long as desperate people are fleeing bombing and persecution in Syria.

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