No, they wouldn't.
The geopolitical proximity of a tragedy determines the amount of media coverage, which then determines how much people care about it.
In other words, people only wake up to reality once it's right in front of them.
People pick up on this and begin to point fingers, expectedly. I don't see why they shouldn't, really. However, it does mean that some who suddenly recognise the hypocrisy then act as if they were knowledgable of other events taking place, when they very well might not have been.