Until a few weeks ago, Europeans believed they lived in a kind of sanctuary, insulated from the world’s current conflicts. Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful; but the tragedy occurring south of Italy, Greece, and Malta seemed a long way off.
Syria’s brutal civil war, which has been raging for years, seemed even farther away. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad deployed poison gas and later barrel bombs filled with nails and metal fragments against his rebellious population. And those who escaped Al Assad’s henchmen found themselves confronted by the terror of Daesh (the self-proclaimed Islamic State of …read more
Source: The Bangladesh Today
