Four years of hell: to crush Yemen’s independence, US-Saudi war created world’s worst humanitarian crisis
On
the fourth anniversary of the US-Saudi war on Yemen, the Middle
East’s poorest nation suffers from the worst humanitarian
catastrophe on Earth. But the Houthi movement — and Yemeni people —
remain unbroken.
by
Ben Norton
Part
2 - US-Saudi coalition intentionally bombing civilians
Corporate
media outlets have paid very little attention to the war, despite the
key role of Western governments in waging it. Instead MSNBC and other
corporate media spent their resources and time obsessively spreading
the Russiagate conspiracy theory.
This
left independent journalists and scholars to do the hard work
documenting the devastation. The Yemen Data Project has shown how
Saudi Arabia has systematically, intentionally targeted civilian
infrastructure in its bombing campaign.
According
to data meticulously compiled by the Yemen Data Project, Saudi Arabia
has launched 19,511 air raids in Yemen, as of March 2019.
Only
one-third of Saudi airstrikes have hit military targets. Another
third have hit civilians. The targets of the final third are unknown.
US-Saudi
bombing has ravaged the impoverished country’s infrastructure,
specifically targeting Yemen’s food system.
The
Western-backed coalition has used hunger as a weapon, punishing
millions of Yemeni civilians for their government, plunging them into
what a famine monitor created by the US government admitted in 2016
was the “largest food security emergency in the world.”
The
Yemen Data Project has documented — in a very careful, conservative
estimate — Saudi attacks on at least 1,968 residential areas, 640
farms, 237 schools, 185 communication buildings, 129 water and
electricity plants, 70 healthcare facilities, 64 food storage units,
38 universities, 21 radio and TV stations, seven refugee camps, and
even seven UN buildings.
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