look the other way

[NewHope]

look the other way = ?

Context:
Boys torn from camps, forced to fight

Children as young as 13 are being forced into combat by Sudanese rebels who take the youngsters from squalid refugee camps in neighboring Chad, CNN has learned. In some cases, Chadian guards look the other way as rebels make children join their ranks, local people say.

[Tdol]

If you look the other way, you ignore something that you should really be paying attention to.