Why aren't we able to stop the horror in Syria?

The sad truth is that we say 'not in my backyard'
The sad truth is that we do not feel empathy for those who are not like us
The real truth is that human rights is becoming an empty shell
The real truth is that we do not feel compelled to stop the horror!

Hundreds of children over many years took a deep breath, had a seizure, coughed and died of suffocation. 
They were the victims of a chemical gas attack. 
The world looked upon their tender corpses and turned a blind eye. 
They were unlucky because their death did not threaten the interests of powerful nations. 
They will never get justice and they are seldom mourned or remembered. 
Poor poor little angels, my heart bleeds for you.

A sad day for Syria and for humanity: is the world helpless? 

Published 21 Aug 2013

The picture we saw today of tens of small bodies lying side by side in the sleep of death is horrific.
Can anybody look at these angels and say, I am not concerned, they are not my children, they are Syrian children? I doubt.

Did presidents Obama and Putin look at the picture? Did Ban Ki-moon glance at his television screen? Did Iran Ayatollahs and Arab presidents notice the innocence slaughtered?
If they did, what did they feel? Did it move a small part of their soul?

The children that died of suffocation are not different from American, Russian, Iranian, French, British, Saudi, Lebanese, Austrian, Swedish, South African, Chinese or Korean children. They used to play with toys, study, break things around the house, get grounded, cry and laugh.

I can hear them tell those who meet and discuss in the United Nations or Parliaments, we hate the darkness that engulfed us. I can hear them saying don’t we deserve that you at least try to pinpoint our killer?
I can hear them calling, asking us to stand against what happened to them at the hands of a crazy criminal warped person.

Nelson Mandela once said "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

Let each one of us look into his soul and evaluate if he could not do more. Maybe write a letter to his representative in government, maybe hold a candle or protest in the street, or just write against what is happening in Syria on his blog or page.

The forgotten children of Syria. 

Published 4 May 2017

CNN 2 hours ago (5 April 2017)
World leaders expressed shock and outrage Tuesday at reports of a suspected chemical attack in northwestern Syria that killed scores of civilians, with one UK official suggesting the incident amounted to a war crime.

They still suspect... trying to balance between their priority of fighting Daesh and making a deal with the devil.
Did they look at the picture? Did they glance at his television screen? Did they notice the innocence slaughtered?
Did they realize that the children that died of suffocation are not different from their children. They used to play with toys, study, break things around the house, get grounded, cry and laugh.

If they did, what did they feel? Did it move a small part of their soul?

I doubt because it is not the first time it happens.
It is not the first time I write about it...
I do not want to lose hope, but I am close.
It is an ugly world.

Abdulhamid Yussef cradles his twins Aya and Ahmad before they are buried in Idlib following a Sarin gas attack TELEGRAPH.CO.UK