Europe must act to help victims of the Aleppo massacre

The world is doing little as the killing of civilians in Aleppo continues. Bernard-Henri Lévy argues that it is now time for the European Union to act

WE must halt the massacre in Aleppo. Whatever the cost, we must stop the massive, random, indiscriminate bombings — and, worst of all, the discriminate ones aimed chiefly at civilians, humanitarian convoys, and hospitals — that the forces of Bashar al-Assad and Russia have resumed with a vengeance in and around what was once Syria’s most populous city.

We must call a halt in the days (if not hours) ahead to the rain of steel, the cluster and phosphorus bombs, and the barrels of chlorine dropped from low-flying government helicopters on the last parts of Aleppo held by moderate rebels. The world, with the democracies out front, cannot fail to respond to the horrifying images, relayed by the few witnesses still there.