Two decades before Aleppo, there was Srebrenica. “Never again,” the world promised.

Neither the representatives of Russia nor of the United States held back their views: To Russia, the resolution to recognize the killings of thousands of civilians as genocide was “politically motivated.” But for Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Russia's refusal to accept the resolution was “madness.” These remarks were not part of a debate […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/14/europes-aleppo-continues-to-haunt-the-continent/