November 28, 2018
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Why Are We Allowing Yemen to Starve?
Humanitarian
atrocities must
come to an end
J.P. l insTroTh
Some have dubbed
the Yemeni civil war
“the forgotten war.”
It seems more inten-
tionally ignored.
It is a humanitarian
crisis on a mass scale.
According to recent
reports by United Na-
tions officials as many as 14 million
Yemenis are on the verge of dying
from starvation. Save the Children,
an international humanitarian orga-
nization, issued a report document-
ing some 84,700 children under five
years old have starved to death since
the US started “helping” Saudi Ara-
bia wage the war in 2015.
How can the world simply stand
by and let this humanitarian crisis
happen? Moreover, what is to be
done about it?
Yemen’s latest civil war began
in 2015 and has directly killed as
many as 56,000 people by bomb
and gun, and far more by starvation.
The country itself is considered to
by
be the poorest in the Middle East.
The war has caused the economy to
collapse with the currency almost
worthless and no job opportunities.
Food is inaccessible.
According to the UN World
Food Programme, more than
three million civilians have
been displaced since the war
commenced. Two-thirds of
the 29 million population are
food-insecure. This number
includes three million chil-
dren, as well as pregnant
women and nursing moth-
ers—all severely malnour-
ished. Since 2016 more than 2,500
civilians have died from a cholera
epidemic with at least a million peo-
ple infected.
Conflicts in and around Yemen
originated long before 2015, some
claim as far back as the Sunni-Shia
conflict which began in the 7th cen-
tury, but more recent events, from
the consequences from British and
French colonialism, the outcome of
World War I, and the Cold War have
all exacerbated inner strife in that
poor nation.
The Executive Director of the
World Peace Foundation, anthro-
pologist Alex de Waal, has claimed
that recent strategic tactics of war-
Letter to the Editor
Support Green New Deal
I am a freshman at the University of Portland.
Learning more and more about climate change
fare have included “mass starva-
tion” from economic blockades and
militarily targeting civilian popu-
lations and their food production.
A major concern is whether or not
those responsible for such tactics
will be ultimately penalized as no
such sanctions currently exist in in-
ternational law.
A report by anthropologist Mar-
tha Mundy cites how coalition forc-
es have been militarily targeting
civilian food production in Yemen,
especially farmlands and fish-
ing boats. Additionally, economic
blockades have been systematically
used by the coalition to contain the
Yemen’s Houthis population, all re-
sulting in mass starvation in Yemen.
As of Nov. 14, Kingdom of Sau-
di Arabia coalition forces have put
a temporary ceasefire in place to
allow critical humanitarian supplies
to reach the Yemeni port city of Ho-
deidah. How long this ceasefire will
last is anyone’s guess.
The International Red Cross has
demanded the following humanitar-
ian measures be taken immediately:
combatants must: spare civilians
and save civilian infrastructure such
as hospitals and schools; avoid ci-
vilian zones in combat; allow for
free civilian passage away from
has made me scared for my future and for the fu-
ture of the generations to come.
I fully support Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s resolution
to create a House Select Committee for a Green
New Deal in Congress. It is proven fact that we
have just 12 years to move our country off fossil
fuels to avoid catastrophic climate disaster and to
warfare; allow for the free move-
ment of medicine and food to reach
civilian populations; and allow for
humanitarian aid to operate within
the country.
In sum, all of us—all people
across the United States and across
the globe—should be very con-
cerned about systematic starvation
of civilian populations as a war
tactic. This needs to stop. There
needs to be accountability for such
humanitarian atrocities and there
needs to be passage of international
law to put an end to these military
practices. Otherwise, unnecessary
and unfortunate suffering as is hap-
pening in Yemen will continue.
U.S. support for Saudi Arabia—
just reinforced by Trump despite
his own CIA concluding that the
Crown Prince bin Salman ordered
the ghoulish assassination and dis-
memberment of Washington Post
journalist Jamal Khashoggi—is key
to the ongoing killing and starvation
of Yemeni civilians.
Politicians with a conscience are
now calling for an end to such aid,
including cessation of arms sales to
Saudi Arabia. For the children of
Yemen, that would be a relief.
J. P. Linstroth is an Adjunct Pro-
fessor at Barry University.
protect my generation and the future generations
to come.
We need a Green New Deal to create millions of
green jobs, move our country off fossil fuels, and
protect working people of all backgrounds. Every
Congress member should support this resolution.
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