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Tragic photos and videos of masses of asylum seekers and immigrants from the Middle East and Africa have recently shocked the world. But these ordeals have been on going for a long time.
Years of news of innocent people drowning by the thousands in the Mediterranean, suffocated by the hundreds in trucks smuggling them to “safe zones,” were not enough to catch the world’s attention. Nor were the thousands of women enslaved, raped and sold in open markets by brutal self-declared Islamist gangs. And the cameras have yet to turn to the real refugee crisis in the countries neighbouring Syria: Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, where the refugees number not hundreds or thousands, but millions.
