I was born in Sri Lanka, where there were open conflicts in a civil war going back to 1984 (I was 2 years old) and riots back to the 70's. Did the West care? Nope... Again, nothing much the rest of the world is intersted in. And unlike the "peaceful revolution", a lot of people died :
In all the years I've spent in the U.S. I could find 1 or 2 mentions on CNN maybe, but that's about it.
I hate to put it in these terms, but unless there's actual interest to the rest of the world and resources at stake, no one really cares. It's the cold hard truth.
Same with the war in Darfur... Which incidentally has been going on as open conflict since 2003, but tensions and clashes go back to 1991. Did you hear about it back then?
Why ask such a question when they already know the answer?
Try finding any resoures that the rest of the world (I.E. Super powers) would like to exploit : http://www.iceland.is/the-big-picture/nature-environment/nat...
Nothing interesting? Well there you go.
I was born in Sri Lanka, where there were open conflicts in a civil war going back to 1984 (I was 2 years old) and riots back to the 70's. Did the West care? Nope... Again, nothing much the rest of the world is intersted in. And unlike the "peaceful revolution", a lot of people died :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Ci...
In all the years I've spent in the U.S. I could find 1 or 2 mentions on CNN maybe, but that's about it.
I hate to put it in these terms, but unless there's actual interest to the rest of the world and resources at stake, no one really cares. It's the cold hard truth.
Same with the war in Darfur... Which incidentally has been going on as open conflict since 2003, but tensions and clashes go back to 1991. Did you hear about it back then?