Good piece in an Irish newspaper.
No longer can we ignore the plight of refugees
Liz O'Donnell
PUBLISHED04/04/2015 | 02:30
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A boy carries two children as he evacuates them from a site hit by what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Fardous district April 2, 2015. REUTERS/Rami Zayat
Nearly five years into the Syrian civil war there seems a capacity for the world to look the other way. This despite it being described as the greatest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.
The scale of fatalities - upwards of 230,000, mostly civilians - appears to elicit a response which is one of paralysed despair. Why is this?
How come the crisis - which began in 2011 with anti-government protests and escalated into a full-scale civil war, causing the biggest refugee crisis in modern history - is finding it difficult to stay in the headlines of our newspapers?
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No longer can we ignore the plight of refugees - Independent.ie?
No longer can we ignore the plight of refugees
Liz O'Donnell
PUBLISHED04/04/2015 | 02:30
A boy carries two children as he evacuates them from a site hit by what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Fardous district April 2, 2015. REUTERS/Rami Zayat
Nearly five years into the Syrian civil war there seems a capacity for the world to look the other way. This despite it being described as the greatest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.
The scale of fatalities - upwards of 230,000, mostly civilians - appears to elicit a response which is one of paralysed despair. Why is this?
How come the crisis - which began in 2011 with anti-government protests and escalated into a full-scale civil war, causing the biggest refugee crisis in modern history - is finding it difficult to stay in the headlines of our newspapers?
Continue reading at:
No longer can we ignore the plight of refugees - Independent.ie?
