ONE year of genocide. One year of horrors permanently seared into our collective imagination. One year of the goalpost of normality being moved again and again. One year of the rules of war being eroded to the point where hospitals, journalists, and children are now fair game. A year of carnage, a year of despair - but also a year of clarification as the grisly bloodthirsty fangs of the Western Empire moved into the light for the world to see.