By Matt Agorist
As previously reported, civilians in Yemen are suffering from an intense and widespread humanitarian crisis. Staggering numbers include 7 million civilians in starvation, and 19 million out of the country’s 27 million population “in need of some form of aid.” However, all of this has just gotten far worse thanks to a blockade on humanitarian support carried out by Saudi Arabia and aided by the West. It is nothing short of genocide.
Yemen has been devastated by more than two years of civil war, fostered by the Saudi Arabian government and supported militarily by the United States. President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi’s government is backed by the Saudi-led coalition and is fighting to drive the Houthis out of cities they seized in 2014 and 2015.
Since the beginning of the US support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen, started by Obama and continued by Trump, thousands of innocent civilians—including children—have been slaughtered in the war. In spite of the fact that the Saudis have been caught dropping US bombs on schools, hospitals, and marketplaces, directly targeting civilians, the US continues their support.
Last week, Houthi rebels in Yemen allegedly launched a ballistic missile toward the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. In response to the attack which killed no one the Saudis placed a blockade on all flights in Yemen, including humanitarian aid.
The blockade has stopped the flow of the much needed medical supplies and food and is on the brink of causing the largest genocide by starvation in modern history.
After briefing the UN Security Council last week, Mark Lowcock, the UN’s humanitarian chief, said the move will worsen a “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis that has pushed millions to the brink of famine and has caused a mass cholera epidemic, reports Al Jazeera.
“I have told the Council that unless those measures are lifted … there will be a famine in Yemen,” Lowcock, who visited Yemen late in October, told reporters last week.
“It will not be like the famine that we saw in South Sudan earlier in the year, where tens of thousands of people were affected. It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people their lives in Somalia in 2011,” he added.
It will be the largest famine the world has seen in many decades, with millions of victims.
I briefed Member States today on my mission to #Yemen. My statement: https://t.co/ycepe6hC63 pic.twitter.com/h05IC0UAvq
— Mark Lowcock (@UNReliefChief) November 6, 2017
However, in spite of Lowcock’s warning, the West has refused to act. Children are being deliberately starved to death at the hands of a US ally and the West is complicit by not only failing to step in and stop it but actually aiding it.
According to recent reports, sales of weapons to the Saudis by the UK have increased by nearly 500% since the start of the slaughter in Yemen. Instead of decrying the mass starvation and genocide and pointing out the obvious—that Saudi Arabia is buying the West’s silence through the purchase of weapons—Trump praised the largest weapons deal in history with the Saudis last week.
“A shot was just taken . . . at Saudi Arabia. And our system knocked it down,” Trump said, referring to the Patriot missiles the United States has sold to the kingdom. “That’s how good we are. Nobody makes what we make, and now we’re selling it all over the world.”
Millions of children are starving to death and the United States government is praising the sale of weapons to the country carrying out the starvation.
The recent blockade has become so horrific that other countries have begun to speak out, yet no one is taking action.
“I hope there’s increasing awareness around the world about the magnitude of the crisis in Yemen,” said Australian Suze Vanmeegen, the Yemen advocacy advisor for the Norwegian Refugee Council.
“The impact of the current blockade is massive. We’re looking at a population that is larger than Australia’s. Their risk of a famine or a crisis that is unprecedented is very, very high,” she said.
Apparently, the cost of maintaining ‘freedom’ in America now involves aiding a terrorist nation in the starvation of an entire country.
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project, where this article first appeared. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Facebook.
The Saudis are not our friends., they were behind 9/11. Time to stop this starving of people and the little kids. If you have to fight this war then fight it, and leave the people out of it, there are plenty of soldiers to shoot. No need to starve the people, just ain’t right at all.
George H.W. Bush arranged with the Saudi bin Laden family to provide the 19 Moslem stooges to “governor” John E. Bush in 2001. They distracted from the MOSSAD preparation of the WTC for demolition. Bush Sr. conducted arms negotiations with the bin Laden family in a D.C. hotel while the WTC was being demolished. Bush arranged for a US Navy jet fighter to lead the bin Laden airliner out of US airspace on the following day, 12 Sept., in violation of an FAA directive that grounded all flights. Some history of the George H. W. Bush family at the following:
http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2014/12/14/4-generations-of-treason-the-royalnazizionistbush-connection/
leave the israeli sock puppets alone. they are part of all healthy israelnet controlled opposition
– gotcha.
So the Saudis were behind 9/11, were they? And all the Israelis that were rounded up in New York with traces of explosives in their vehicles? And all the Saudi ‘hijackers’ that turned out to be alive and well?
American citizens at home are having their lives destroyed by the millions for possessing a marijuana joint, and people are being sent to prison for 60 years for possessing an underage nude photo, but we’re killing millions of kids in Yemen, and making money off it to boot. It’ll continue. Ask most Americans what Yemen is and they’ll probably say it’s a kind of soup. Know nothing, care less. Hey, is this why we’ve spent trillions to keep the Afghan opioids flowing in?
The US government and political leadership has never cared about the lives of ordinary people in the areas marked for destruction and regime change. The US military has murdered and created destruction and mayhem on a country wide basis in country after country and the blood of innocents has flowed without cessation. Meanwhile back at home, people are arguing about kneeling during the national anthem, not caring one wit about the little children lying in pools of their own blood, gutted by the same troops that Americans love to support. US society is dysfunctional, violent, indecent, venal, greedy and dystopian. Unfortunately the great mass of Americans are too ignorant and stupid to know or care that they are being marched into oblivion!
Very Accurate.
Very Sad.
If I could ^ you a million times, I would.
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Huh?
No mention is made in this article as to the reasons behind America’s war by proxy against the people of Yemen. Are we expected to just sit back in bewilderment as the United States destroys country after country in the Middle East and then become flustered when a Muslim carries out a terrorist attack in the West killing and injuring a relatively small number of innocents? Do the lives of millions of innocents in Yemen, or for that matter Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan or Libya not bother us because they are not broadcast on the nightly news or is it because of the colour of their skin and their religion? The World hasn’t forgotten the atrocities committed in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos not to mention countless other countries throughout Latin America destroyed from within by America. The days of the American government’s malice and their public’s apathy can’t go on forever. As their own country is now being destroyed from within I get the impression many Americans are more concerned with fighting for the right to smoke marijuana oblivious to what the rest of the World who don’t live within their borders make of the situation.
There can never be enough dead in Yemen.