Suzanne Harrington: All people fleeing war deserve help, no matter what they look like

The reporting of the terrorising of Ukrainian people has been so openly racist towards those suffering in other war zones beyond Ukraine
Suzanne Harrington: All people fleeing war deserve help, no matter what they look like

People wait in the reception center for refugees from Ukraine at the main train station in Berlin, Germany at the weekend. Picture: Hannibal Hanschke/dpa via AP

As we watch helplessly the horror being meted out on ordinary people by a dictator-led military, have you noticed how this atrocity in Ukraine is being reported?

The Telegraph calls it “an attack on civilisation itself.” Its journalist writes, “They seem so like us….[Ukrainian] people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts….War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations. It can happen to anyone.”

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