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Picture belonging to the same article: © Murad Sezer/Reuter - Syrian refugees at a camp on the
Syria-Turkey border. 'Europe is increasingly faced not with a choice over
whether Syrian refugees will enter its borders, but under what circumstances.'
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While the world’s eyes are now firmly fixed on Gaza, the Syrian
maelstrom of death, destruction and displacement rages on, and shows no signs
of abating.
When histories are written about the humanitarian cost of Syria’s
civil war, Europe’s response to the crisis of a generation might be summed up
in a single phrase: never was so little done by so many for so few.
More than three years after the conflict began, almost three million
refugees have fled their shattered homeland in fear of their lives. A
dispassionate observer might imagine that, by virtue of wealth and geography,
many would seek safe harbour just a few kilometres to the west, in the peaceful
and prosperous countries of the EU.
