Get, when you look at the history of the non-western nations, you do not find democracy and all of the virtues and pursuit of virtues that accrue to it. We in the west have evolved, through our histories, a pursuit of those virtues. We pursue freedoms of press, speech, and religion. In fact, we anger some Americans because we allow too much freedom. Non-western nations have no such history.

China has been either a dictatorship or an oligarchy since the BC period; Russia is now a faux democracy and has been a dictatorship or oligarchy since the Rus came out of the Russian stepps over a 1,000 years ago. The same is true for the nations of Asia and eastern Europe. Thankfully, the nations of eastern Europe, under the umbrella of NATO, have the opportunity to develop the virtues of democracy. Except for Israel, pursuit of democracy is just about a lost cause in the middle east and Africa.

So yes, the silence about human tragedy is loud in those nations.