Syrian Refugees and Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims: Two tales of Human Apathy
You have to understand, no one puts their child in a boat unless the water is safer than land - Warsan Shire. An image of Aylan Kurdi, 3 year old whose lifeless body in a red shirt and dark shorts face down on a Turkish beach which washed off to shore like debris has galvanized the public attention to a crisis that has been building for years. His round cheek pressed to sand as if he is sleeping is nothing short of apathy the humanity has turned into. The boy along with family like million others were on their unsuccessful journey to safe shores but no one except father survived. What brought Syria a treasure house of archaeological marvels which sadly are looted and bulldozed now only to be sold in black markets to such a stage where people are risking their blood to flee their homeland? It is not simple to sum it all in definite terms but here is a short summary of what happened. It all appears to have begun after the Arab Spring of 2011 where young Muslims ...