Reflective of much of the world's silence and inability to respond to this genocide. I can think of 2 reasons for the silence:
1.) It hurts and infuriates so much that some have to look away. After the chemical weapons attack in 2013..
.something broke in me when I saw footage of people, especially babies, struggling to breathe and sometimes foaming at the mouth and when I saw pictures of dead children laid side-by-side after they were attacked with chemical weapons by the Syrian regime. I largely stopped keeping up with the news regarding Syria for about a year after that. But as much as I wanted it to avoid it, the reality was still there and so was the inaction.
2.) Syrian Sunni lives aren't considered very valuable to most of the world.
"Yet the international community has made little effort to stop Mr. Assad’s barrel bombing of civilians. The two governments with the greatest potential to influence Mr. Assad — his principal backers, Russia and Iran — have refused to get him to stop. Western governments have been reluctant to exert strong public pressure on them because of other priorities — Ukraine, in the case of Russia, and the nuclear deal, in the case of Iran. The European Union is putting far more effort into stopping Syrian asylum seekers from reaching the Continent than addressing the root causes of their flight. The United States and Turkey recently announced a plan to make a 60-mile strip in northern Syria an “ISIS-free zone,” but the goal is to fight ISIS militants, not protect civilians."
Barrel Bombs, Not ISIS, Are the Greatest Threat to Syrians
Whether these reasons or others are given, ignoring the genocide in Syria cannot be justified.
