It the press focused on one family during the civil war to show the extent of suffering it would be easier to identify with it, but all we get is generalised reports of explosions, retaliations and numbers.
Is it grief or is it empathy? I can say how awful it is to read of a 25 year old mother dying, leaving young children motherless, that I feel for her family. That doesn't mean I am grieving.
I know what it is to grieve for a young person dying when my brother died at 21.