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It’s horrific...famines are pretty uncommon... famine like this, as big as this, this is very uncommon... it’s entirely man made... the news of it isn’t being reported... The economy’s being destroyed... food that is available is too expensive for much of the population. ...bombing started in the spring of 2015... led by Saudi Arabia, and particularly was the initiative of the Crown Prince, but at that stage he was defense minister, Mohammed bin Salman, who has become so notorious since because of the Khashoggi murder... Originally... apparently they thought it would take a few weeks. By the end of 2016... they appear to have become more and more frustrated. So they had started infrastructure, food production, food storage... 220 fishing boats on the Red Sea... destroyed. The fish catch is down by 50 percent... means a lot for people who are already on the age of starvation. And the attack on the economic infrastructure... All the evidence is that there is a very deliberate economic war going on, directed at the Yemenis... So all these things are coming together with this intensifying of the military war, and heavy civilian casualties, and the worsening famine in all parts of the country. (en) |
