The world is going through a difficult time. Over the past decade alone, hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens have perished in Myanmar (formerly Burma), Ethiopia and Sudan. The labels may vary — ethnic cleansing, state-sponsored atrocities or sectarian, identity-based violence — but in the end these are all serious crimes against humanity.
In media coverage, however, they neither attract adequate column inches or minutes in telecast time. When genocides happen on account of internal divisions, the world doesn’t know how to intervene without being seen as meddling in the domestic affairs of a sovereign nation. Closer home, we have seen......