Same thing with Darfur, Somalia, The Sudan, all the atrocities going on there, we ignore them. Why?
1. They have no oil.
2. They are Africans, and our history with Africans is sadly one fraught with racism.
Back when George the first invaded Kuwait, I asked why we were going into this tiny country, yet the Baltic states had been overrun by the USSR for years. The reasons then:
1. They have no oil.
2. The USSR had the bomb.