By Nurettin Kurt
Dec. 3, 2019
Reading about the thousands of innocent people dying as a result of aerial bombardments, and the tens of thousands of women and children being forced to fight for life in inhuman conditions in refugee camps, one feels an urged to share the information across social media in order to shed light on the tragic situation.
Nonetheless, the question remains: despite all of the new possibilities provided to spread information across the web, how many people end up exposed to significant content, such as the terrible face of the war?
Just think: today a user on social networks can share a real-time photo of a beautiful landscape or a tasty dinner with a friend on the other side of the world. Moreover, information, images and video can easily be shared with millions.
All the same, few social media accounts, and not a single television channel, are able to capture the truth about the tragic consequences of the wars taking place around the world. The true scale of the tragedy would need to predominately showcase the innocent victims who have become hostages in conflicts they did not choose and had no say in.
How much of the media covered the recent shocking UN report on the situation in Syria? Considering it had to compete with the Oscar award ceremony for the media’s attention, likely very few.
Let’s imagine for a second that the war was taking place in our country, that our relatives and children were among those dead or surviving horrific conditions in refugee camps.
Read more at https://uwidata.com/2634-un-report-on-syria-shows-scale-of-humanitarian-tragedy/
