It has been a
year since Syrian Aylan Kurdi washed up on a shore in Turkey, which stroke
West’s attention about the Syrian civil war. He was supposed to play on the
beach not lie there without moving. What
made Aylan different was definitely the photo that made people have pity, because he wasn't the only dead child while trying to run from the war. After this sad event, Germany declared they would accept thousands of refugees from Syria.
In previous weeks, the world faced another
soul-shattering photo. Omran in an ambulance... His half red, half gray face
was not from a Hollywood movie. He was shocked and didn’t know about kids who were
lucky enough to be born in Europe or the USA were watching the news while
having their dinner. Once again people asked questions about the kids affected
by the war.
Do we really need to see such iconic photos
to do something? I can’t deny the fact that they provoke people’s human side to
take an action. However, how many have to die because of human’s stupidity and
greed? I think what people don’t understand is globalization isn’t something you have
profit from 3rd world countries miles away by selling them products,
cars, guns anymore. Today, global crisis can affect not only the economically
colonized countries, but also the colonizers as well. Therefore, developed
countries have two options. They will either live their utopia and use 2nd
world countries as buffer zones, or they will understand welfare of the developing
countries matter. Yet, it seems incomes of Syrian civil war are more its outcomes,
because except for a few air strikes, there is no direct effort to really put
an end to it, which is probably because of greed, wrath and pride of humankind.
Hope
not to see photos like Omran’s and Aylan’s any more, because I am afraid people
will get used to seeing such photos and just change the channel, which is
unfortunately easier for them to do rather than changing their mentality or
politics of their countries.
