WORLD_ As Syria's death toll grows, so too does indifference toward the crisis

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As Syria's death toll grows, so too does indifference toward the crisis

'Aleppo is dying but where is the outrage?' journalist asks

By Margaret Evans, CBC News
Posted: Aug 12, 2016 12:03 PM ET
Last Updated: Aug 12, 2016 7:11 PM ET



Syrian refugee children receive gifts as volunteers entertain them inside a housing compound in Sidon, southern Lebanon, June 12, 2016. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)


The deep summer. We sit on decks at lakeside cottages, the reassuring murmur of the radio in the background. Or on terraces in the city, sipping spritzers. If we're working, we type away at our desks, sandwich crumbs on the keyboards, with the whirr of nearby fans battling summer heat.

On those rare occasions when we surface to face the world around us, flipping on the TV or the computer screen, our newscasters are all busy counting up Olympic medal tallies.

But in faraway Syria, they're still counting the dead — a daily tally of their own in a civil war that has raged for five years between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and opposition forces.

This week, it was the siege of Aleppo, water running out for some 300,000 Syrians living in rebel-held parts of the smashed city. And reports that chemical weapons had once more been used. Pictures, again, of frightened children, eyes streaming, carried into the bombed-out hovels that are their hospitals. And it barely touches us.

'Unbearable stench of death and dying'

READ MORE: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-crisis-continues-1.3718279

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