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X-post from GD. VOX - 20 million people starving due to 4 man made famines.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1002918637920 million starving to death: inside the worst famine since World War II
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/1/15653970/south-sudan-hunger-crisis-famine
First, South Sudan isnt the only country in the region facing mass starvation. A potentially historic famine is also threatening Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen. Far from Western eyes and far from the headlines, an estimated 20 million people in those four countries are at risk of dying due to a lack of food.
Second, these famines werent caused by natural disasters like crop failures or droughts. They were man-made the direct result of the bloody wars and insurgencies raging in all four countries.
The crisis in the 1980s pales in comparison to the famine happening today. Because it isnt just happening in one country; its happening in four.
But its Yemen, where 7 million people are facing starvation, thats perhaps the clearest illustration of how war is directly causing famine. The Arab worlds poorest country, Yemen has suffered from food shortages for years, but a war between the Saudi-backed government in exile and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who control much of the north of the country has brought food shipments into Yemen to a grinding halt.
With US assistance, Saudi warplanes have destroyed bridges, roads, factories, farms, food trucks, animals, water infrastructure, and agricultural banks across the north, while imposing a blockade on the territory. For a country heavily dependent on foreign food aid, that means starving the people.
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X-post from GD. VOX - 20 million people starving due to 4 man made famines. (Original Post)
underpants
Jun 2017
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Mosby
(16,304 posts)1. Maybe KSA, Iran and the Yemenites should sit down and work thinks out
With 7 million facing starvation one would think that this would be a priority.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. No one is calling it genocide, but it is.
When you have great -powers all joining forces to decimate a country's population and infrastructure, making life impossible, that is deliberate murder of the population. Directly and indirectly.
we did it in Iraq. On live tv, no less. The military was told to protect the oil and related structures, destroy everything else.
same thing happening in Syria, and in Palestine. Yemen is not as invisible as attackers would like, but no 1st world country is willing to stand up for it.