It is a shocking state of affairs and reported widely on the World Service but it's not unique in being ignored in much of the media. If there's no Western interest, what goes on in the world is largely ignored. You only have to take the coverage of the recent hurricane in Florida, when disasters much worse elsewhere in the world end up as no more than a footnote. As an aside, UK media coverage is much more focused on the US than Europe. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics."
