Yemen: up to 85,000 young children dead from starvation

[Jim Morrison]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/yemen-young-children-dead-starvation-disease-save-the-children

An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five have starved to death over the last three years as a result of Yemen’s civil war, a report from Save the Children has found, as the charity urged an immediate ceasefire to prevent more loss of life.
The figure is a conservative estimate based on UN data on severe acute malnutrition, which the international body says has afflicted more than 1.3 million children since the conflict between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition that seeks to restore Yemen’s exiled government began in 2015.
About 14 million people – half of Yemen’s population – are currently at risk of famine, largely because of Saudi border blockades designed to weaken the Houthis, which have also strangled civilian access to food, fuel, aid and commercial goods.

Western governments, including the US and UK, are aiding and abetting this horrific crisis.

[Death-trooper]

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out Saudi Arabia has been enacting Genocide against the populace of Yemen ever since this war started.

[That Deer]

And yet nothing is being done about it, it seems.

Apparently oil is thicker than blood.

[Zenreon]

If basic human decency wouldn't inspire a policy to help these people, what chance do I as a single person have to do so? I can give like 20$ to the red cross at most. What options do we have? A food drive and some bound to fail private shipment of humanitarian aid? The scale of the suffering here is mind-boggling. So many valuable lives are being lost for what amounts to an idiotic dispute between idiots.

[Orpheus]

Ok so my heart just dropped into my stomach