at the plight of Omran has not been accompanied by rage at those who dropped the bomb."
The image brought renewed global focus to the suffering of civilians in the eastern part of Syrias largest city, living under near-siege conditions and a constant bombardment of barrel bombs dropped from government aircraft and more targeted Russian airstrikes.
Civilian casualties from Russian bombings have overtaken civilian deaths at the hands of Isis for the first time, the activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said last week.
By ignoring the political and military context of Omrans plight, they are cheapening his suffering and that of all the people who have chosen to stay on in opposition-held areas of Aleppo, or have not had an opportunity to leave.
We dont want the world to know we are dying as civilians here, that is not enough. We want the world to know who is killing us, who is targeting us, said an English-language professor at the university, whose six-month-old daughter was born in one of the citys few remaining hospitals. If people in Britain and United States know that Russia and Assad are doing this, they will help us, they will do something with their government to help us. But if they dont know, what kind of help can we get?