7. Conclusion: One’s Reality, Another’s Illusion

‘I watched a little baby die today, absolutely horrific. Just a two-year old been hit […] That is happening over and over and over. No one can understand how the international community can let this happen. Particularly when you have an example of Srebrenica, shelling of a city, lots of investigations by the United Nations after that massacre or lots of vows to never let it happen again’, remarked the Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin (BBC 2012) when she reported from Homs, Syria, just a day before she and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed by the shells that hit where they resided. No matter how many times we may have heard the slogans, ‘never again’, ‘no more Srebrenicas’, and ‘no more Rwandas’ (just to name few striking cases among many others) in the early 2000s, with the situation in Darfur there came yet another call: ‘Genocide No More—Save Darfur’, and since the early 2010s, there has been a ‘never again is now’ cry for the appalling humanitarian crisis in Syria, where the international community has been rendered ineffective, if not idle.