by Lakhdar Brahimi
Over the past four years, Syria has been the scene of terrible suffering and savagery.
The war has claimed more than 200,000 lives and devastated Syria’s social and economic fabric.
The international community has been unable – and, to some extent, unwilling – to stop the war or end Syria’s suffering.
Yet national governments throughout the EU, it seems, are too afraid of – or too beholden to – anti-immigrant sentiment among their electorates to show common humanity to refugees.
In a conflict as bitter, protracted, and complex as the war in Syria, it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by despair.
The Algerian-born French author Albert Camus wrote, “In such a world of conflict, victims, and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners”. It is in this spirit that I call on people around the world to pressure their governments to implement policies that protect and shelter Syrian war refugees.
For the world’s sake, the Syrian people must not be forgotten.
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Categories: Arab World, Asia, Syria