Current Events > The photos the U.S. and Saudi Arabia don't want you to see

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/opinion/columnists/yemen-famine-cholera.html

Let’s be blunt: With U.S. and U.K. complicity, the Saudi government is committing war crimes in Yemen.

“The country is on the brink of famine, with over 60 percent of the population not knowing where their next meal will come from,” the leaders of the U.N. World Food Program, Unicef and the World Health Organization said in an unusual joint statement.

Yemen, always an impoverished country, has been upended for two years by fighting between the Saudi-backed military coalition and Houthi rebels and their allies (with limited support from Iran). The Saudis regularly bomb civilians and, worse, they have closed the airspace and imposed a blockade to starve the rebel-held areas into submission.

That means that ordinary Yemenis, including children, die in bombings or starve.

A child dies in Yemen every five minutes.



This is Buthaina, a girl believed to be 4 or 5 who was the only survivor in her family of a bombing last week by the Saudi coalition that killed 14 people.

Human Rights Watch has repeatedly concluded that many Saudi airstrikes were probable war crimes and that the U.S. shares responsibility because it provides the Saudis with air-to-air refueling and intelligence used for airstrikes, as well as with much of the weaponry.

Yet victims like Buthaina aren’t on our television screens and rarely make the news pages, in part because Saudi Arabia is successfully blocking foreign journalists from the rebel-held areas. I know, because I’ve been trying for almost a year to get there and thought I had arranged a visit for this week — and then Saudi Arabia shut me down.

With commercial flights banned, the way into rebel areas is on charter flights arranged by the United Nations and aid groups. But Saudi military jets control this airspace and ban any flight if there’s a journalist onboard. I don’t think the Saudis would actually shoot down a plane just because I was on it, but the U.N. isn’t taking chances.

This is maddening: Saudi Arabia successfully blackmails the United Nations to bar journalists so as to prevent coverage of Saudi atrocities.



The Saudis don’t want you to see children like this one, Alaa, severely malnourished and photographed by a World Food Program team. Two days later, Alaa died.

“The situation in Yemen is a disgrace that brings shame to our global community,” says Michelle Nunn, president of Care USA. “More than 20 million Yemenis are in need of emergency assistance, and a child dies every five minutes. Yet few Americans know about the daily bloodshed, near-famine conditions and a raging cholera epidemic.”

The civil war in Yemen started as a local conflict, but Saudi Arabia rushed in because of exaggerated fears of Iranian influence there. All parties have behaved outrageously. But it’s our side that appears to be responsible for the most deaths: A draft U.N. report says that the Saudi-led coalition is responsible for 65 percent more deaths of children than the Houthis and their allies, and it’s the Saudis who have imposed the blockade that is leading to starvation.

In addition, the world’s worst cholera epidemic has broken out in Yemen, partly because so many people are malnourished. An additional 5,000 Yemenis are infected with cholera each day.

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Fuck Saudi Arabia
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whitewimmin posted...

Let’s be blunt: With U.S. and U.K. complicity, the Saudi government is committing war crimes in Yemen.

The liberal media can't just blame Saudi Arabia for being despicable, it's got to take shots at Western countries too. And then, if the U.S. or U.K. actually enter the Middle East to remedy this, they'll take shots again for invading foreign nations occupied by brown people.

The conflict between the Saudis and Yemenis is an ongoing Islamic war. It's unbelievable that this "article" doesn't once mention that as the root cause. If you're not going to be honest about that, save the emotionally manipulative photos.
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The Admiral posted...

The liberal media can't just blame Saudi Arabia for being despicable, it's got to take shots at Western countries too.

We are arming Saudi Arabia, providing them the weapons to carry out this destruction

The Admiral posted...

And then, if the U.S. or U.K. actually enter the Middle East to remedy this, they'll take shots again for invading foreign nations occupied by brown people.

It is incredible that your idea of a remedy is the U.S. or U.K. invading a country here. Or that our bombs being all over Sanaa doesn't constitute "entering" the Middle East.
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The Admiral posted...

whitewimmin posted...

Let’s be blunt: With U.S. and U.K. complicity, the Saudi government is committing war crimes in Yemen.

The liberal media can't just blame Saudi Arabia for being despicable, it's got to take shots at Western countries too. And then, if the U.S. or U.K. actually enter the Middle East to remedy this, they'll take shots again for invading foreign nations occupied by brown people.

The conflict between the Saudis and Yemenis is an ongoing Islamic war. It's unbelievable that this "article" doesn't once mention that as the root cause. If you're not going to be honest about that, save the emotionally manipulative photos.

Many sides contribute.
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unpleasant_milk posted...

Fuck Saudi Arabia

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The Admiral posted...

whitewimmin posted...

Let’s be blunt: With U.S. and U.K. complicity, the Saudi government is committing war crimes in Yemen.

The liberal media can't just blame Saudi Arabia for being despicable, it's got to take shots at Western countries too. And then, if the U.S. or U.K. actually enter the Middle East to remedy this, they'll take shots again for invading foreign nations occupied by brown people.

The conflict between the Saudis and Yemenis is an ongoing Islamic war. It's unbelievable that this "article" doesn't once mention that as the root cause. If you're not going to be honest about that, save the emotionally manipulative photos.

they're doing it with our weapons
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ThyCorndog posted...

they're doing it with our weapons

And intelligence, and refueling
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The Admiral posted...

And then, if the U.S. or U.K. actually enter the Middle East to remedy this, they'll take shots again for invading foreign nations occupied by brown people.

Because the U.S. gets attacked by Saudis and then goes, "Lol, let's invade Iraq". No shit, people criticize them. If they actually went after the most obvious evil empire in the middle east who funds terrorists, it MIGHT be different.
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unpleasant_milk posted...

Fuck Saudi Arabia

Unfortunately no one's going to do shit because oil and greed.
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