An old African Kikuyu proverb says, “When the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” Nowhere are these words more chillingly insightful than now in Aleppo, Syria. The elephants are fighting while the world watches, and indeed, it is the most innocent, the children, who suffer.The civil war in Syria, responsible for some 470,000 deaths and 2 million injured, can seem a world away. An abstraction. And yet the images, if we allow ourselves to pause and look at them, [...]
↧