THE eight-year conflict in Syria has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and created millions of refugees.
It is easy for outsiders to become inured to the plight of so many victims of aggression. Yet sometimes amid carnage the sufferings of a single innocent victim jolt public consciousness and shame the governments that have enabled them.
This ought to happen in the case of Mohammed Hamid Mohammed, a 13-year-old boy who suffered terrible burns as Turkey’s military incursion against the Kurds advanced into northern Syria. His agonies exemplify not only the vulnerability of civilians but the cruelties inflicted by Turkey since it was, in effect, given a green light by President Trump to attack the Kurds.
The cynical operation in Syria to attack the Kurds under the guise of an anti-terrorist operation is deplorable. Its incursion targets a stateless people that has long allied with, but rarely been supported by, the West. The sufferings that Turkey has inflicted demand a moral accounting.
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