Genocide In Real Time

The bombs keep dropping and the buildings keep burning. The blood keeps pouring and the bones keep splintering. The West still closes its eyes to all the horrors unfolding daily, even though they appear on myriad screens in real-time. Panoramic views are revealing, yet many choose to look elsewhere. Close ups of corpses provoke cold steel responses. Political elites kowtow to propaganda. No one among them deviates from hackneyed scripts. No- one bothers to even lift a finger to end genocide. Evil is now normalised, as innocence is buried under the rubble. The ragged other is, alas, dehumanised.