In 2016 the US' long time ally Saudi Arabia took the gloves off and started to target the food for millions of people. Under the barrage of partisan news, this has gone largely unnoticed. It is not a future event, it has been ongoing, ~144 children dead a day for some time. One every 10 minutes. Cholera is also a major killer. More than 50,000 children in Yemen died from starvation during 2017.[1][2][3][4] In October 2018, the United Nations warned that 13 million people face starvation in what could be "the worst famine in the world in 100 years."[31] The famine has been compared by some commentators to the holodomor in Soviet Ukraine.[32][33]
Most media prefer to focus on Trump's twitter feed as it is more profitable. Hopefully this will get more attention.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-famine-coalition-houthi-rebels-a8609516.html Britain ‘complicit’ in Yemen famine, Tory ex-cabinet minister warns amid calls to end arm sales UK-supported Saudi coalition ‘killing civilians and bombing own aid supplies,’ MPs told Harry Cockburn 2 days ago Yemeni boy Ghazi Ali bin Ali, 10, suffering from severe malnutrition lies on a bed in the outskirts of the city of Taiz, on October 30, 2018 ( AFP/Getty ) A former cabinet minister has said Britain is “complicit” in creating a famine in war-torn Yemen because of its support for the Saudi-led coalition, amid growing calls for the UK to halt its sales of arms to the group. Andrew Mitchell, who was international development secretary in David Cameron’s government, has urged foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt to reassess the government’s stance on the issue. It came as opposition MPs have also criticised the government for maintaining arms sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen. UK ‘has blood on hands’ over Yemen but 42% of Brits unaware war exists Facebook temporarily bans posts of article with image of starving girl Yemen facing the ‘world’s worst famine in 100 years’, warns UN Mr Mitchell said: “Has our new Foreign Secretary had a chance to review the position of the British Government at the United Nations in respect of the Yemen? Will he move from a position of supporting the Saudi coalition, where Britain is complicit in creating a famine, to one of constructive neutrality to secure a ceasefire and meaningful constitutional negotiations, as the UN special representative Martin Griffiths is consistently urging and trying to secure?” In response, Middle East minister Alistair Burt, said the UK would bring forward a resolution at the UN “as soon as the right opportunity arises”. He told the Commons: “On 15 March the UK proposed and co-ordinated a United Nations Security Council presidential statement which called on the parties to agree steps towards a ceasefire – that remains our position. Calling for a nationwide ceasefire will only have an effect on the ground if it’s underpinned by a political deal between the conflicting parties. “Given the lack of agreement between those parties, passing a ceasefire resolution risks undercutting the UN envoy’s efforts to reach a political deal and undermining the credibility of the council. As soon as the right opportunity arises we will bring forward a resolution.” Theresa May’s government has previously argued, with high court backing, the supply of weapons to Saudi Arabia does not breach UK arms export licence laws as it claims there is no clear risk of a serious breach of humanitarian law by the Saudi coalition. Watch more The Yemen war death toll is five times higher than we think The value of sales to Saudi Arabia approved by Whitehall in 2017 totalled £1.13bn – over 70 per cent of all weapons exports. But MPs heard that civilians were dying and aid supplies bombed by the Saudi coalition. At an International Development Committee meeting on the situation in Yemen, Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, warned Mr Burt: “Millions will end up in horrific famine – the worst famine for a generation, unless there is enormous change, and we would look to UK action in a number of areas.” “On the Saudi side there are three countries that have influence – not 190 countries, the members of the UN. It’s the US, the UK and France… You need to take initiatives.” One of the key actions must be for the UK to stop selling the Saudi coalition arms, he said. “What must change is the UK, US and France saying, ‘we are your main arms salesman, we are your main intelligence and strategic partners, we demand a ceasefire. Stop the air raids, stop the campaign and stop the offensive’," he said. Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds Brighton Kemptown MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle asked whether through arms sales the UK had “thrown its lot in with the Saudis”, and if it could still play an arbitration role. Mr Egeland replied: “No, your chance of being arbitrator has not gone. The continuing policy (of selling weapons) has to change.” Marwa Baabbad of the Oxford Research Group, who appeared alongside Mr Egeland also called for an “immediate” end to arms sales, saying in the case of the Saudi coalition supported by Britain “we are seeing air strikes resulting in the deaths of civilians”, and had even bombed water sources provided by the UK. “The coalition has bombed our own aid?” Mr Russell Moyle asked. “Yes”, Ms Baabbad replied, and her answer was immediately supported by Dina El-Mamoun, the head of advocacy and policy in Yemen, for Oxfam. “I echo that very strongly”, Ms El-Mamoun said. The children wounded in Yemen's war She also said the Houthi rebels opposing the Saudi coalition had laid numerous minefields, resulting in “huge” numbers of deaths. “The UK government must also work on pressuring actors like Iran into stopping aiding the Houthis when it comes to arms, and holding them accountable for their own atrocities”. Summing up his comments to MPs, Mr Egeland said: “Let us now have the UK not having their fingerprints all over arms transfers and the military relationship but (instead) designing the road plan for an end to this cataclysmic situation.” Agencies contributed to this report
Hopefully. Someting like this was the expected result of his election as there are no column inches for much else. What is strange here is Britian and France are also caught up in this though their press has been covering it for a while.
They do but I think we have to get past that in this case and bypass Trump, his deaf, dumb and blind supporters and just get into it. I normally give directly to charity as I have mixed feelings about some of them however I now see that it is possible to make a better call using charity navigator and others.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...sh-calls-for-ceasefire-in-yemen-idUSKCN1N6614 It seems that there is a call for a ceasefire within 30 days. That means the Saudi's will escalate massively until the deadline. Which will slip.
Yes it is a crime and exposed to a world of indifference. So we're to believe there were no problems in Yemen prior to 2016? This has been going on for years and years, like every other god damn problem in the world. These poor people will continue to die by the thousands because your corporate media prefers to focus on fabricated allegations of sexual misconduct from decades ago.You see, that's profitable and politically advantageous. Won't see any people from Yemen getting asylum either. They ain't in some caravan, an obviously well fed caravan judging from all the fat fucks I see lumbering along while chatting on their iPhone. The people of Yemen will be left to die because they are just no use to anyone politically.
Yet everyone ignores that the entire current Yemen conflict was started and funded by Iran in an attempt to have their proxies overthrow the government. Iran is largely to blame or the civil deaths and famine — not Saudi Arabia.