Comments on: Sri Lankan civilian deaths: Who cares? https://www.yourish.com/2009/01/27/6197 Cutting straight to the point Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Soccerdad https://www.yourish.com/2009/01/27/6197/comment-page-1#comment-35888 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:54:44 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=6197#comment-35888 Actually the NY Times noticed it. In a single editorial. And that might only be because it gave them a chance to boost their own profession.

And it isn’t just that Palestinians die. They have to be killed by Israel to generate any outrage.

]]> By: The_Editrix https://www.yourish.com/2009/01/27/6197/comment-page-1#comment-35887 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:38:38 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=6197#comment-35887 Hundredthousands of deaths in Ruanda left the world cold. The Canadian General Romeo Dallaire said that with only 5000 men he would very likely have been able to prevent the genocide. He didn’t get them. I have blogged about Tamils and the lack of interest in their fate in 2006 already here. I hope this format swallows HTML.

“Now I am asking myself… where is the outrage? Where are the candlelight vigils? The heartbreaking pictures (authentic or staged) of crying children? Where the human shields so graciously offered to an ugly dictator like Saddam Hussein? The UN resolution condemning the perpetrators? (The UNICEF broke their back and filed a protest, though, to be honest…) The useful visits of the White House, the Vatican and the EU of the representative of the Tamils? The media coverage of same visits? The calls for hauling up the Sri Lankan bloke in charge to the International Court in The Hague as a war criminal?”

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