Comments on: Representing Refugees https://booksbywomen.org/representing-refugees-by-jane-wilson-howarth/ Wed, 07 Dec 2016 09:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Jane Wilson-Howarth https://booksbywomen.org/representing-refugees-by-jane-wilson-howarth/#comment-48133 Wed, 07 Dec 2016 09:59:09 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17241#comment-48133 In reply to Diana Stevan.

Thank you Diana for your heart-felt response and I am with you on feeling bewildered and impotent. Who knows whether stepping in is a good or a bad thing! I suppose we all need to try to press for peace and agitate for out governments to stop the bombing. I found it especially poignant to read that Greece itself has experienced such turmoil and two waves of ethnic cleansing – around 1922 and during the 2nd world war. The only thing anyone seems to learn from history is that no-one learns anything from history.

]]> By: Diana Stevan https://booksbywomen.org/representing-refugees-by-jane-wilson-howarth/#comment-48129 Tue, 06 Dec 2016 01:37:52 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17241#comment-48129 Thank you for your work and for sharing your experience. It’s beyond tragic what’s happened in Syria. I watched some news coverage today and can’t comprehend how Assad, supported by Putin, is crushing Aleppo. How anyone survives the bombing is a miracle.

How can the UN and other peacekeepers stand by and watch a devastation, a mass homicide, and do little to stop it? With what we know about other genocides and wars, you’d think we’d have some idea by now of what to do to save peoples’ lives. By not stepping in before it got so crazy, we’ve created a situation worldwide that has become difficult to manage. How to support all these refugees? How to give them comfort and a fresh start elsewhere? It’s mind-boggling.

Wishing you the best and good luck on your writing.

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