By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A top U.N. aid official, frustrated by obstacles to humanitarian aid in Syria, asked on Friday if a million people needed to be killed and neighboring states collapse before the world would take action to stop the conflict. John Ging, director of operations at the U.N. ****** for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the humanitarian crisis was getting even worse with almost 2.8 million refugees in neighboring states and 6.5 million displaced in Syria. Moreover, Damascus has a deliberate strategy of denying medical care to the wounded by removing anything that could be used as medical supplies from convoys, Ging added, calling this \"an abomination, indescribably unacceptable in 2014.\" \"The valid question to ask those political leaders is ... how many poor people will you accept to be killed before you do something different?\" he asked.
05-12-2014, 08:22 AM
U.N. official asks if 1 million Syrians must die before world acts
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A top U.N. aid official, frustrated by obstacles to humanitarian aid in Syria, asked on Friday if a million people needed to be killed and neighboring states collapse before the world would take action to stop the conflict. John Ging, director of operations at the U.N. ****** for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the humanitarian crisis was getting even worse with almost 2.8 million refugees in neighboring states and 6.5 million displaced in Syria. Moreover, Damascus has a deliberate strategy of denying medical care to the wounded by removing anything that could be used as medical supplies from convoys, Ging added, calling this \"an abomination, indescribably unacceptable in 2014.\" \"The valid question to ask those political leaders is ... how many poor people will you accept to be killed before you do something different?\" he asked.
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