It’s human nature and simple geography: Things that happen far away, to people we have never known from areas of the world we have no connection to, don’t hit us as hard as whatever is happening at home. So if you don’t particularly care about the Syrian Civil War, or the crisis it’s created in places like the city of Aleppo, it makes sense.
The question is, what’s the one reason why you would?
WOULD THE PICTURES MAKE YOU CARE?
Grief-stricken families embracing in the rubble of what used to be their home — a home like any other, like your home. Mothers and fathers crouching over their dead children. A father and son, crushed in place under the wreckage of another airstrike. And these aren’t even among the most iconic images. This is every hour. Every day.
WOULD THE NUMBERS MAKE YOU CARE?
- 96 children were killed in less than a week (Source: UNICEF Sept. 28, 2016)
That’s five elementary school classrooms, gone in a matter of days. That’s more children than you likely know by name. That’s only one week of fighting.
- 200,000 to 300,000 persons are trapped in the city (Source: UNOCHA)
When we say trapped, we mean they literally cannot leave. Roads out of parts of the city are under constant attack. That doesn’t only mean people can’t leave, it means things can’t get in; things like food, water, medicine and fuel.
- More than 470,000 have been killed since 2011 (Source: Syrian Centre for Policy Research)
WOULD THE FRUSTRATION MAKE YOU CARE?
I always read about the Middle East and it always hurt me to see how cruel some mankind is…just seeing the disastrous nature of their actions,little children with their head back blow out,women with broken feature,father holding their dead kids etc…would b enough for me quit that war.