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Firestarter:
The genocide in Yemen is ignored by most media. This could be the single worst case of genocide since the 1950s, and if nobody blows the whistle it will continue...
The state media blame the supposed “civil war” on the Houthis or Saudi Arabia, but in reality it is another genocide orchestrated by the United Nations, UK, USA, UAE and Saudi Arabia.
After the war against Yemen was intensified in March 2015, in 2016 alone more than 50,000 Yemeni children died of “preventable causes”, and since then the situation has gotten even worse. Most Yemenis have died not directly from the bombs of the “coalition” but because of starvation and disease as food supplies, agriculture, energy and water utilities were targeted. It’s hard to estimate the total death toll, but I would be surprised if it is less than 400,000...

See a Yemeni girl, dying of hunger.



Two thousand children per week die
A lot of reports, based on information of the UN, state that “more than 10,000” civilians in Yemen have died because of the bombs by Saudi Arabia. Much more than that is dying because of starvation.

In December 2016, UNICEF already knew that:
--- Quote ---At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen. That’s the conclusion of a report just published by the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF. The report also found that there has been a 200 percent increase since 2014 in children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, with almost half a million affected. Nearly 2.2 million children are in need of urgent care.
--- End quote ---
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/15/journalist_iona_craig_the_us_could
(archived here: http://archive.is/nE6An)

Let’s do the math.
At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen.
More than 6 per hour.
More than 144 per day.
More than 1000 per week.
More than 4320 per month.
More than 52,500 per year.

Already in April 2015 (that’s almost 4 years ago!), food supplies across Yemen were running out, and petrol stations empty. As the blockade continues, the country’s food shortage becomes even more severe.
Yemen Economic Corporation, one of Yemen’s largest food storage centres, was destroyed by 3 missiles of the coalition: http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/yemeni-civilians-struggle-to-get-by-amid-conflict

Attacks on electricity and water installations as well as food storage centres will inevitably cause severe harm to civilians: https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/05/18/dispatches-renewed-fighting-yemen-should-not-mean-renewed-violations

In a press conference in January 2018, the Yemeni Ministry of Health says that because of the war against Yemen, 52,000 children died in 2016 for preventable causes. That’s 1000 every week, almost a child every 10 minutes.

Some 35,000 Yemenis were killed or wounded by airstrikes since the war started in March 2015. That’s about 35 people every day.
The war by the coalition has also triggered a cholera outbreak that has killed 2,236 people so far.
Because of the ceaseless aggression, more than 55% of the health facilities don’t function, and the remaining 45% operates with a minimum capacity.
As a direct result of the airstrikes, 415 health facilities have been destroyed, either completely or partially.

Some 2 million Yemeni children suffer from malnutrition, of which half a million are dying of starvation.
According to the World Food Programme, more than 21 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian assistance, and more than 9 million are expected to enter the stage of starvation: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/02/547641/Yemen-Saudi-war

Since December 2016 the famine in Yemen has become even worse...

Michelle Nunn of Care USA, estimated 1 1/years ago that “A child dies in Yemen every 5 minutes”; more than 2000 per week, more than 104,000 per year.
The biggest arm suppliers to Saudi Arabia, are: 1) the United States with 52.0% and 2) Britain 27.1%.
The remaining 20.8% is exported to Saudi Arabia, by countries that include: Spain, France, Switzerland, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, China, South Africa, Georgia, Austria, Slovakia, and Bulgaria: http://archive.is/MrshH
(original version: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/opinion/columnists/yemen-famine-cholera.html)

See some Yemeni children dying of starvation.





UNICEF blatantly lying
I’ve actually based some of this story on the information from the UN...

“At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen” means that more than a thousand children died every single week from starvation in 2016 (more than 52,000 a year)…
Since then the human catastrophe has gotten even worse, at this moment more than 104,000 Yemeni child die per year…

Now it gets really strange as the United Nations ignores its own information that “At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen” to come up in January 2018 with a total of 13,600 Yemenis that were killed…

According to UNICEF:
--- Quote ---Over 5,000 children have been killed by Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen since it began in March 2015, says a report by the UN children's agency.
(…)
The report published by UNICEF on Tuesday, noted that the Saudi war had killed "an average of five children every day since March 2015."
(…)
More than 13,600 people have been killed since the onset of the Saudi-led war on Yemen in 2015.
--- End quote ---
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/17/549176/yemen-saudi-arabia-children-killed
(archived here: http://archive.is/a6tYF)

Technically speaking, calling more than 200,000 dying Yemeni children “Over 5,000 children” isn’t a lie, but it is kind of misleading…
There’s no denying that saying “the Saudi war had killed an average of five children every day since March 2015” is a blatant lie!

According to the UN’s Geert Cappelaere:
--- Quote ---The war in Yemen is sadly a war on children. Yemen is facing the worst humanitarian crisis I have ever seen in my life.
--- End quote ---
UNICEF in its greatest philanthropic disguise flew 1.9 million doses of vaccines to Yemen to vaccinate 600,000 children against diphtheria, meningitis, whopping cough, pneumonia and tuberculosis.

Maybe somebody can tell these “humanitarian” organisations that vaccines don’t offer immunity against starvation and lack of clean drinking water...
Two UNICEF vessels carrying food and water purification tables and medicines have not received clearance to dock in Hodeida: http://archive.is/cldvU

According to Mark Lowcock, UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, the “coalition” blockade of Yemen, will lead to:
--- Quote ---the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims.
--- End quote ---
The UN Security Council “demanded” that Saudi Arabia will open all borders into Yemen and allow humanitarian aid deliveries into the country. Sure: “ask” them politely…
The French Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported that its flights were denied clearance into Yemen for 3 days.
The International Red Cross said its shipment of chlorine tablets, to “fight cholera”. No clean water or food, but fighting “cholera” and vaccines are priority number one: http://www.dw.com/en/yemen-facing-largest-famine-in-decades-if-blockade-isnt-lifted-un-aid-chief-says/a-41308061


Yemen starved to death
Tariq Riebl, an aid worker for an international humanitarian organisation stated:

--- Quote ---I witnessed about a thousand air strikes. Some of them were very close. I almost burst my eardrum in one.
--- End quote ---
In Sanaa the strikes lasted up to five hours, “
--- Quote ---You’d have that four to six times a day. It would start randomly. It was the middle of the night, middle of the day, morning, night, afternoon, anytime. Consistently on holidays, on Fridays, in the middle of prayer time, market days (…)
Let’s be very clear, the civilian targeting is absolutely astounding. I’ve seen hospitals, mosques, marketplaces, restaurants, power plants, universities, residential houses, just bombed, office buildings, bombed. Everything is a target. In Saada, there were dead donkeys on the side of all the main roads because the Saudis were hitting donkey carts. In Hajjah, the water tank in one of the towns got hit, and it sits on a lonesome little hill.
--- End quote ---

The result of the blockade and the bombing is that 7 million of the country’s 27 million population is on the verge of starvation. The number of food insecure people in Yemen has risen by three million during seven months. More than 17 million Yemenis are forced to skip meals.
The UN International Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition in Yemen. UNICEF said that at least 370,000 children are at risk of severe malnutrition, and without urgent treatment will die. An estimated 1.5 million children are malnourished.

According to repeated statements from the UN, over 14 million Yemenis (more than half the population) are living in hunger. The threat of mass starvation is compounded by a rapidly spreading cholera epidemic.
In other words, with the aid of the developed world, Saudi Arabia and its allies are starving an entire population – that’s genocide.
The USA has sold a whopping $115 billion to Saudi Arabia since Obama took office: http://www.globalresearch.ca/un-warns-us-saudi-war-threatens-mass-starvation-in-yemen/5553857

This is what Yemeni children look like, dying of starvation.



Here is a 10:50 video that shows the effects of the UK/US/Saudi led coalitian’s war against Yemen.
There are several interviews with nurses, it shows amongst others dying children because of malnutrition, mothers trying to keep the flies away...
And a protest in Sanaa blaming the US government for selling weapons to the Saudis, but not the American citizens.
https://youtu.be/sDPJEtoSHeA

Here’s a video by Oxfam on what is (still) happening in Yemen.
https://youtu.be/qP8_wRUlZ-c

guest8:

--- Quote from: Firestarter on January 31, 2019, 11:52:08 am ---The genocide in Yemen is ignored by most media. This could be the single worst case of genocide since the 1950s, and if nobody blows the whistle it will continue...
The state media blame the supposed “civil war” on the Houthis or Saudi Arabia, but in reality it is another genocide orchestrated by the United Nations, UK, USA, UAE and Saudi Arabia.
After the war against Yemen was intensified in March 2015, in 2016 alone more than 50,000 Yemeni children died of “preventable causes”, and since then the situation has gotten even worse. Most Yemenis have died not directly from the bombs of the “coalition” but because of starvation and disease as food supplies, agriculture, energy and water utilities were targeted. It’s hard to estimate the total death toll, but I would be surprised if it is less than 400,000...

See a Yemeni girl, dying of hunger.



Two thousand children per week die
A lot of reports, based on information of the UN, state that “more than 10,000” civilians in Yemen have died because of the bombs by Saudi Arabia. Much more than that is dying because of starvation.

In December 2016, UNICEF already knew that:
--- Quote ---At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen. That’s the conclusion of a report just published by the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF. The report also found that there has been a 200 percent increase since 2014 in children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, with almost half a million affected. Nearly 2.2 million children are in need of urgent care.
--- End quote ---
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/15/journalist_iona_craig_the_us_could
(archived here: http://archive.is/nE6An)

Let’s do the math.
At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen.
More than 6 per hour.
More than 144 per day.
More than 1000 per week.
More than 4320 per month.
More than 52,500 per year.

Already in April 2015 (that’s almost 4 years ago!), food supplies across Yemen were running out, and petrol stations empty. As the blockade continues, the country’s food shortage becomes even more severe.
Yemen Economic Corporation, one of Yemen’s largest food storage centres, was destroyed by 3 missiles of the coalition: http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/yemeni-civilians-struggle-to-get-by-amid-conflict

Attacks on electricity and water installations as well as food storage centres will inevitably cause severe harm to civilians: https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/05/18/dispatches-renewed-fighting-yemen-should-not-mean-renewed-violations

In a press conference in January 2018, the Yemeni Ministry of Health says that because of the war against Yemen, 52,000 children died in 2016 for preventable causes. That’s 1000 every week, almost a child every 10 minutes.

Some 35,000 Yemenis were killed or wounded by airstrikes since the war started in March 2015. That’s about 35 people every day.
The war by the coalition has also triggered a cholera outbreak that has killed 2,236 people so far.
Because of the ceaseless aggression, more than 55% of the health facilities don’t function, and the remaining 45% operates with a minimum capacity.
As a direct result of the airstrikes, 415 health facilities have been destroyed, either completely or partially.

Some 2 million Yemeni children suffer from malnutrition, of which half a million are dying of starvation.
According to the World Food Programme, more than 21 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian assistance, and more than 9 million are expected to enter the stage of starvation: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/02/547641/Yemen-Saudi-war

Since December 2016 the famine in Yemen has become even worse...

Michelle Nunn of Care USA, estimated 1 1/years ago that “A child dies in Yemen every 5 minutes”; more than 2000 per week, more than 104,000 per year.
The biggest arm suppliers to Saudi Arabia, are: 1) the United States with 52.0% and 2) Britain 27.1%.
The remaining 20.8% is exported to Saudi Arabia, by countries that include: Spain, France, Switzerland, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, China, South Africa, Georgia, Austria, Slovakia, and Bulgaria: http://archive.is/MrshH
(original version: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/opinion/columnists/yemen-famine-cholera.html)

See some Yemeni children dying of starvation.





UNICEF blatantly lying
I’ve actually based some of this story on the information from the UN...

“At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen” means that more than a thousand children died every single week from starvation in 2016 (more than 52,000 a year)…
Since then the human catastrophe has gotten even worse, at this moment more than 104,000 Yemeni child die per year…

Now it gets really strange as the United Nations ignores its own information that “At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen” to come up in January 2018 with a total of 13,600 Yemenis that were killed…

According to UNICEF:
--- Quote ---Over 5,000 children have been killed by Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen since it began in March 2015, says a report by the UN children's agency.
(…)
The report published by UNICEF on Tuesday, noted that the Saudi war had killed "an average of five children every day since March 2015."
(…)
More than 13,600 people have been killed since the onset of the Saudi-led war on Yemen in 2015.
--- End quote ---
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/17/549176/yemen-saudi-arabia-children-killed
(archived here: http://archive.is/a6tYF)

Technically speaking, calling more than 200,000 dying Yemeni children “Over 5,000 children” isn’t a lie, but it is kind of misleading…
There’s no denying that saying “the Saudi war had killed an average of five children every day since March 2015” is a blatant lie!

According to the UN’s Geert Cappelaere:
--- Quote ---The war in Yemen is sadly a war on children. Yemen is facing the worst humanitarian crisis I have ever seen in my life.
--- End quote ---
UNICEF in its greatest philanthropic disguise flew 1.9 million doses of vaccines to Yemen to vaccinate 600,000 children against diphtheria, meningitis, whopping cough, pneumonia and tuberculosis.

Maybe somebody can tell these “humanitarian” organisations that vaccines don’t offer immunity against starvation and lack of clean drinking water...
Two UNICEF vessels carrying food and water purification tables and medicines have not received clearance to dock in Hodeida: http://archive.is/cldvU

According to Mark Lowcock, UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, the “coalition” blockade of Yemen, will lead to:
--- Quote ---the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims.
--- End quote ---
The UN Security Council “demanded” that Saudi Arabia will open all borders into Yemen and allow humanitarian aid deliveries into the country. Sure: “ask” them politely…
The French Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported that its flights were denied clearance into Yemen for 3 days.
The International Red Cross said its shipment of chlorine tablets, to “fight cholera”. No clean water or food, but fighting “cholera” and vaccines are priority number one: http://www.dw.com/en/yemen-facing-largest-famine-in-decades-if-blockade-isnt-lifted-un-aid-chief-says/a-41308061


Yemen starved to death
Tariq Riebl, an aid worker for an international humanitarian organisation stated:

--- Quote ---I witnessed about a thousand air strikes. Some of them were very close. I almost burst my eardrum in one.
--- End quote ---
In Sanaa the strikes lasted up to five hours, “
--- Quote ---You’d have that four to six times a day. It would start randomly. It was the middle of the night, middle of the day, morning, night, afternoon, anytime. Consistently on holidays, on Fridays, in the middle of prayer time, market days (…)
Let’s be very clear, the civilian targeting is absolutely astounding. I’ve seen hospitals, mosques, marketplaces, restaurants, power plants, universities, residential houses, just bombed, office buildings, bombed. Everything is a target. In Saada, there were dead donkeys on the side of all the main roads because the Saudis were hitting donkey carts. In Hajjah, the water tank in one of the towns got hit, and it sits on a lonesome little hill.
--- End quote ---

The result of the blockade and the bombing is that 7 million of the country’s 27 million population is on the verge of starvation. The number of food insecure people in Yemen has risen by three million during seven months. More than 17 million Yemenis are forced to skip meals.
The UN International Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition in Yemen. UNICEF said that at least 370,000 children are at risk of severe malnutrition, and without urgent treatment will die. An estimated 1.5 million children are malnourished.

According to repeated statements from the UN, over 14 million Yemenis (more than half the population) are living in hunger. The threat of mass starvation is compounded by a rapidly spreading cholera epidemic.
In other words, with the aid of the developed world, Saudi Arabia and its allies are starving an entire population – that’s genocide.
The USA has sold a whopping $115 billion to Saudi Arabia since Obama took office: http://www.globalresearch.ca/un-warns-us-saudi-war-threatens-mass-starvation-in-yemen/5553857

This is what Yemeni children look like, dying of starvation.



Here is a 10:50 video that shows the effects of the UK/US/Saudi led coalitian’s war against Yemen.
There are several interviews with nurses, it shows amongst others dying children because of malnutrition, mothers trying to keep the flies away...
And a protest in Sanaa blaming the US government for selling weapons to the Saudis, but not the American citizens.
https://youtu.be/sDPJEtoSHeA

Here’s a video by Oxfam on what is (still) happening in Yemen.
https://youtu.be/qP8_wRUlZ-c

--- End quote ---

what about the genocides in the African Continent . do they count.....

You cannot solve the world's problems, Only GOD can!

Blade

guest8:

--- Quote from: Bladerunner on January 31, 2019, 09:02:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: Firestarter on January 31, 2019, 11:52:08 am ---The genocide in Yemen is ignored by most media. This could be the single worst case of genocide since the 1950s, and if nobody blows the whistle it will continue...
The state media blame the supposed “civil war” on the Houthis or Saudi Arabia, but in reality it is another genocide orchestrated by the United Nations, UK, USA, UAE and Saudi Arabia.
After the war against Yemen was intensified in March 2015, in 2016 alone more than 50,000 Yemeni children died of “preventable causes”, and since then the situation has gotten even worse. Most Yemenis have died not directly from the bombs of the “coalition” but because of starvation and disease as food supplies, agriculture, energy and water utilities were targeted. It’s hard to estimate the total death toll, but I would be surprised if it is less than 400,000...

See a Yemeni girl, dying of hunger.



Two thousand children per week die
A lot of reports, based on information of the UN, state that “more than 10,000” civilians in Yemen have died because of the bombs by Saudi Arabia. Much more than that is dying because of starvation.

In December 2016, UNICEF already knew that:
--- Quote ---At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen. That’s the conclusion of a report just published by the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF. The report also found that there has been a 200 percent increase since 2014 in children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, with almost half a million affected. Nearly 2.2 million children are in need of urgent care.
--- End quote ---
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/15/journalist_iona_craig_the_us_could
(archived here: http://archive.is/nE6An)

Let’s do the math.
At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen.
More than 6 per hour.
More than 144 per day.
More than 1000 per week.
More than 4320 per month.
More than 52,500 per year.

Already in April 2015 (that’s almost 4 years ago!), food supplies across Yemen were running out, and petrol stations empty. As the blockade continues, the country’s food shortage becomes even more severe.
Yemen Economic Corporation, one of Yemen’s largest food storage centres, was destroyed by 3 missiles of the coalition: http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/yemeni-civilians-struggle-to-get-by-amid-conflict

Attacks on electricity and water installations as well as food storage centres will inevitably cause severe harm to civilians: https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/05/18/dispatches-renewed-fighting-yemen-should-not-mean-renewed-violations

In a press conference in January 2018, the Yemeni Ministry of Health says that because of the war against Yemen, 52,000 children died in 2016 for preventable causes. That’s 1000 every week, almost a child every 10 minutes.

Some 35,000 Yemenis were killed or wounded by airstrikes since the war started in March 2015. That’s about 35 people every day.
The war by the coalition has also triggered a cholera outbreak that has killed 2,236 people so far.
Because of the ceaseless aggression, more than 55% of the health facilities don’t function, and the remaining 45% operates with a minimum capacity.
As a direct result of the airstrikes, 415 health facilities have been destroyed, either completely or partially.

Some 2 million Yemeni children suffer from malnutrition, of which half a million are dying of starvation.
According to the World Food Programme, more than 21 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian assistance, and more than 9 million are expected to enter the stage of starvation: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/02/547641/Yemen-Saudi-war

Since December 2016 the famine in Yemen has become even worse...

Michelle Nunn of Care USA, estimated 1 1/years ago that “A child dies in Yemen every 5 minutes”; more than 2000 per week, more than 104,000 per year.
The biggest arm suppliers to Saudi Arabia, are: 1) the United States with 52.0% and 2) Britain 27.1%.
The remaining 20.8% is exported to Saudi Arabia, by countries that include: Spain, France, Switzerland, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, China, South Africa, Georgia, Austria, Slovakia, and Bulgaria: http://archive.is/MrshH
(original version: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/opinion/columnists/yemen-famine-cholera.html)

See some Yemeni children dying of starvation.





UNICEF blatantly lying
I’ve actually based some of this story on the information from the UN...

“At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen” means that more than a thousand children died every single week from starvation in 2016 (more than 52,000 a year)…
Since then the human catastrophe has gotten even worse, at this moment more than 104,000 Yemeni child die per year…

Now it gets really strange as the United Nations ignores its own information that “At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen” to come up in January 2018 with a total of 13,600 Yemenis that were killed…

According to UNICEF:
--- Quote ---Over 5,000 children have been killed by Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen since it began in March 2015, says a report by the UN children's agency.
(…)
The report published by UNICEF on Tuesday, noted that the Saudi war had killed "an average of five children every day since March 2015."
(…)
More than 13,600 people have been killed since the onset of the Saudi-led war on Yemen in 2015.
--- End quote ---
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/17/549176/yemen-saudi-arabia-children-killed
(archived here: http://archive.is/a6tYF)

Technically speaking, calling more than 200,000 dying Yemeni children “Over 5,000 children” isn’t a lie, but it is kind of misleading…
There’s no denying that saying “the Saudi war had killed an average of five children every day since March 2015” is a blatant lie!

According to the UN’s Geert Cappelaere:
--- Quote ---The war in Yemen is sadly a war on children. Yemen is facing the worst humanitarian crisis I have ever seen in my life.
--- End quote ---
UNICEF in its greatest philanthropic disguise flew 1.9 million doses of vaccines to Yemen to vaccinate 600,000 children against diphtheria, meningitis, whopping cough, pneumonia and tuberculosis.

Maybe somebody can tell these “humanitarian” organisations that vaccines don’t offer immunity against starvation and lack of clean drinking water...
Two UNICEF vessels carrying food and water purification tables and medicines have not received clearance to dock in Hodeida: http://archive.is/cldvU

According to Mark Lowcock, UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, the “coalition” blockade of Yemen, will lead to:
--- Quote ---the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims.
--- End quote ---
The UN Security Council “demanded” that Saudi Arabia will open all borders into Yemen and allow humanitarian aid deliveries into the country. Sure: “ask” them politely…
The French Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported that its flights were denied clearance into Yemen for 3 days.
The International Red Cross said its shipment of chlorine tablets, to “fight cholera”. No clean water or food, but fighting “cholera” and vaccines are priority number one: http://www.dw.com/en/yemen-facing-largest-famine-in-decades-if-blockade-isnt-lifted-un-aid-chief-says/a-41308061


Yemen starved to death
Tariq Riebl, an aid worker for an international humanitarian organisation stated:

--- Quote ---I witnessed about a thousand air strikes. Some of them were very close. I almost burst my eardrum in one.
--- End quote ---
In Sanaa the strikes lasted up to five hours, “
--- Quote ---You’d have that four to six times a day. It would start randomly. It was the middle of the night, middle of the day, morning, night, afternoon, anytime. Consistently on holidays, on Fridays, in the middle of prayer time, market days (…)
Let’s be very clear, the civilian targeting is absolutely astounding. I’ve seen hospitals, mosques, marketplaces, restaurants, power plants, universities, residential houses, just bombed, office buildings, bombed. Everything is a target. In Saada, there were dead donkeys on the side of all the main roads because the Saudis were hitting donkey carts. In Hajjah, the water tank in one of the towns got hit, and it sits on a lonesome little hill.
--- End quote ---

The result of the blockade and the bombing is that 7 million of the country’s 27 million population is on the verge of starvation. The number of food insecure people in Yemen has risen by three million during seven months. More than 17 million Yemenis are forced to skip meals.
The UN International Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition in Yemen. UNICEF said that at least 370,000 children are at risk of severe malnutrition, and without urgent treatment will die. An estimated 1.5 million children are malnourished.

According to repeated statements from the UN, over 14 million Yemenis (more than half the population) are living in hunger. The threat of mass starvation is compounded by a rapidly spreading cholera epidemic.
In other words, with the aid of the developed world, Saudi Arabia and its allies are starving an entire population – that’s genocide.
The USA has sold a whopping $115 billion to Saudi Arabia since Obama took office: http://www.globalresearch.ca/un-warns-us-saudi-war-threatens-mass-starvation-in-yemen/5553857

This is what Yemeni children look like, dying of starvation.



Here is a 10:50 video that shows the effects of the UK/US/Saudi led coalitian’s war against Yemen.
There are several interviews with nurses, it shows amongst others dying children because of malnutrition, mothers trying to keep the flies away...
And a protest in Sanaa blaming the US government for selling weapons to the Saudis, but not the American citizens.
https://youtu.be/sDPJEtoSHeA

Here’s a video by Oxfam on what is (still) happening in Yemen.
https://youtu.be/qP8_wRUlZ-c

--- End quote ---

what about the genocides in the African Continent . do they count.....

You cannot solve the world's problems, Only GOD can!

Blade

--- End quote ---

Do you have a solution.... Complaining never did fix anything..... If you have a solution, I am sure Pres. Trump would listen!


Blade

Firestarter:

--- Quote from: Bladerunner on January 31, 2019, 09:02:52 pm ---You cannot solve the world's problems, Only GOD can!
--- End quote ---

--- Quote from: Bladerunner on January 31, 2019, 09:04:53 pm ---Do you have a solution.... Complaining never did fix anything..... If you have a solution, I am sure Pres. Trump would listen!
--- End quote ---
Bladerunner, you yourself could even make a change for the better. Start telling the truth would be a big improvement!
Since Trump became president, the US has sold even more bombs to the "coaltion" and thrown more bombs than during the Obama administration...

Firestarter:
You might think that you understand what war crimes are under international law...


In early 2011, the people in Yemen started demonstrations against the corrupt dictatorial regime. President, dictator Saleh eventually resigned in favour of his vice president, endorsed by the USA and Saudi Arabia, Mansour Hadi. Hadi ran for president in 2012 and won the election — he was the only candidate. This failed to mollify the Houthis. In September 2014 they marched into Sanaa and placed Hadi under house arrest.
For many years the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia bought large amounts of weapons - bombers, bombs, and missiles – from the USA, Britain, France, and other NATO countries. Saudi Arabia bought 84 Boeing F-15‘s, 170 helicopters, bombs and missiles (including 1300 cluster bombs sold by Textron for $641 million). This sale totalled $60 billion: the largest arms sale in US history.

The United Nations passed a Security Council resolution that demanded the unconditional surrender of the Houthi Ansarullah movement. On 25 March 2015, the Royal Saudi Air Force went into action. Six days later, the Saudi-led coalition imposed a blockade of Houthi-held areas.
The Houthis were proclaimed terrorists for fighting against a dictator favoured by the international elite but not supported by the Yemenis; they also claimed that the Houthis are connected to Iran. The USA supplied “logistical and intelligence support” to the “coalition”, including training, intelligence, while US Navy ships aided in the blockade.

Yemen imported more than 90% of its food, fuel, cooking gas, and medicine. The effect of the blockade is devastating, and is worsened by the bombs (including carpet bombs and phosphorous bombs) that target infrastructure and agriculture.
According to Peter Maurer, head of the International Red Cross: “Yemen after five months looks like Syria after five years”. Maurer attributed this to the fighting, bombing, and the blockade: http://harpers.org/archive/2016/09/acceptable-losses/?single=1


Because the UN resolution against the Houthis, the bombs by the “coalition” on Yemen aren´t even a war crime per definition.
What makes it a war crime, though, is that the “coalition” has intentionally targeted civilian targets...


I’ve finally found an estimate of the total death toll as a result of the war against Yemen, including the hundreds of thousands caused by starvation, from March 2018.
According to a statement by a Yemeni minister...

The military aggression has indirectly killed almost 300,000 civilians, including more than 247,000 children.
Most of the people died due to severe malnutrition, some 17,608 because they were unable to get medical treatment.
On top of that, the bloody war by the “coalition” on Yemen has also injured more than 300,000 civilians, since it started in March 2015.

The Britain-led coalition bombed:
- 660 food storages and 200 food factories.
- 4,586 fishing boats, 93 fish landing centres, killing tens of fishermen.
- 1,016 farms.
- 535 markets.

- 271 factories.
- 600 mosques and tourist facilities.
- 393 archaeological sites.
- 2,641 educational centres were destroyed, leaving 2.5 million students unable to go to school or university.

- 9 civilian airports, 14 ports, 5,000 kilometres of roads, 95 bridges.
- 400 telecommunication facilities.
- 420 power stations, 450 oil and gas equipment or trucks.
- 85 sports stadiums.
http://en.ypagency.net/2018/03/26/600000-civilians-killed-injured-in-saudi-led-coalition-air-attacks-on-yemen/


The few stories about this catastrophe often call for “health care”. I can tell from personal experience that when you’re on the verge of starvation, you need food instead of doctors. This can be illustrated with the following quote from a mother that was offered spoons and dishes by a businessman, and replied to this gift:

--- Quote ---There is no food, no pure water, no electricity, nothing. One day, a businessperson came to us and give us dishes and spoons but I told him sarcastically, ‘What should we do with these? Eat the soil?’
--- End quote ---
Millions of Yemenis don’t have clean water to drink, which causes illness, so they require medical care…

Following is a June 2017 overview of the destruction of Yemen by the UK-US-Saudi led coalition.
2.5 million - people displaced.
404.485 - Houses destroyed and/or damaged.
1733 - Bridges and roads destroyed.
162 - Electrical power plants destroyed.
294 - Health facilities destroyed.

According to the official numbers a total 12.574 people have been killed.
Please don’t do the math or you might lose some sleep over this: 1000 Yemeni children die every single week (of course throwing bombs on the food supply doesn’t count as a war crime...).
1784 - Agricultural fields destroyed.
221 - Poultry farms destroyed.
676 - Food stores destroyed.
528 - Food tankers destroyed.

In the night of 22/23 August, starting at midnight, the UK/US-led coalition carried out a bombing campaign of at least 25 air strikes on the outskirts and north of the capital of Yemen, Sanaa.
At least 35 people were killed when a hotel to the north of Sanaa, which housed mainly QAT-farmers, was destroyed. Some sources claim that the death toll is at least 60.

According to the deaf, dumb and blind UN, “more than 10,000” people have been killed since March 2015, blatantly ignoring that 1000 Yemeni children die every single week.
According to a report by the Protection Cluster in Yemen (part of the wonderful UNHCR organisation), there were more air strikes in Yemen from January to June 2017 (5,676) than in the whole of 2016 (3,396).
According to the Protection Cluster, 14 million Yemenis are food insecure and don’t have access to clean water (more than 50% of the population) of which 8.2 million are in acute need of help.

According to the Guardian in July 2015, 20 million Yemenis are in need of aid.
The expected winners of the genocide in Yemen are Isis and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/07/jihadis-likely-winners-of-saudi-arabias-futile-war-on-yemens-houthi-rebels


Most people in the “civilised” world don’t even realise what it’s like to have no clean water to drink.
368 - Water tanks and networks have been destroyed: http://geopoliticsalert.com/heres-exactly-800-days-us-saudi-aggression-destroyed-yemen


The following report shows that in 2015, 2016 many civilian targets were hit by the coalition.
From October 2015 to March 2016 more civilian targets than military targets were hit every month with the exception of January 2016.

http://en.abna24.com/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2016/09/17/779544/story.html
(archived here: http://archive.is/qpngS)


Martha Mundy’s report from October 2018 shows that the coalition’s bombing campaign of Yemen is aimed at the food production and distribution of food in rural Yemen, and on fishing along the Red Sea coast. This IS – per definition – a war crime, supported by UK, US, and the UN.

On 9 August in Dahyan a school bus was struck by a US-made guided missile.
On 23 August, again south of Hodeidah, a bus with women and children was attacked.
There was a pause, but from early September the Coalition has renewed their at¬tempts to cut off and seize Hodeidah.
On 16 September, UAE naval forces fired a rocket on a boat with 18 fishermen, after interroga¬ting them, killing all but one.

The following figure shows the percentage of civilian, military and unknown targets in several districts- March 2015 - March 2018: https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/wp-content/uploads/sites/3684/nggallery/maps-and-figures-from-strategies-of-the-coalition-war-in-yemen/Figure-1.jpg

Starting in August 2015 there was a shift from military to civilian targets, including water and transport infrastructure, food production and distribution, schools, hospitals, houses, fields and flocks: https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/wp-content/uploads/sites/3684/nggallery/maps-and-figures-from-strategies-of-the-coalition-war-in-yemen/Figure-2.jpg

Fishing installations were likewise damaged, virtually every fish-offloading port along the coast has been targeted.

Agricultural land was the target most frequently hit. As agriculture covered less than 3% of Yemen’s total surface, it’s obvious that agriculture land is specifically aimed at.
Because of the bombing campaign on agriculture, people actually left the countryside to take refuge on the outskirts of cities. This has resulted in a lack of farmers to work the land.

See a map of agricultural targets in September - October 2015 (when most bombs were thrown), and all targets: https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/wp-content/uploads/sites/3684/nggallery/maps-and-figures-from-strategies-of-the-coalition-war-in-yemen/Map-7.jpg

Martha Mundy – Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War: Aerial Bombardment and Food War: https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/files/2018/10/Strategies-of-Coalition-in-Yemen-War-Final-20181005-1.pdf

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