Emily Thornberry: The famine facing Yemen is a war crime - it must be investigated

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The Saudi-led coalition has deliberately targeted civilians. The UK must press for answers – not be complicit in a cover-up
@EmilyThornberry

Thu 22 Nov 2018 08.24 EST
Last modified on Thu 22 Nov 2018 08.26 EST

Ten-year-old Ghazi Saleh, who weighs 8kg.
‘The Saudi-led coalition has, from the very start of the conflict in 2015, sought to use starvation as a weapon of war.’ Photograph: Marzooq Al-Jabiry/AFP/Getty Images

Today the UN security council will debate a UK-drafted resolution containing a rather gentle entreaty to the warring parties in Yemen. It will ask them to take “constant care to spare civilian objects, including those necessary for food production, distribution, processing and storage”.

If that sounds like the safety instructions for a new vacuum cleaner, then welcome to the world of UN resolutions. But what it actually reveals is a far darker, more shameful truth. The truth of a Saudi-led coalition, armed by Britain and the United States, which from the very start of the conflict in 2015 has sought to use starvation as a weapon of war.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/22/famine-yemen-war-crime-civilians-saudi-coalition?CMP=share_btn_tw