Saudi Arabia Continues to Pursue Peace and Stability in Region

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Saudi Arabia Continues to Pursue Peace and Stability in Region

Post by Jason » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:20 pm

Yemen famine

Yemen is on the brink of a historic famine that could put as many as 13 million people at risk of death by starvation, the United Nations warns.

Lise Grande, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, issued the warning in an interview with the BBC yesterday. Grande said the fierce fighting between Saudi-backed government forces and Houthi rebels, and the ongoing blockade of aid shipments, have created the conditions for humanitarian disaster on a scale not seen since Ethiopia in the 1980s or the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

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The civil war, now in its fourth year, has already claimed the lives of between 10,000 and 50,000 civilians — the fighting has made precise counts all but impossible — and displaced more than two million.

The Saudis and their allies from the United Arab Emirates have carried out more than 18,000 airstrikes since 2015, with increasingly deadly consequences. One monitoring project estimates that civilian deaths are up 164 per cent since the beginning of the siege of the Houthi-controlled port city of Hodeidah in June.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/nat ... -1.4862908

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Post by Forty Two » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:58 pm

I would think Yemen and Oman should be part of Saudi Arabia anyway, and throw in the UAE too. It's all part of that same peninsula.

Yemen is just a hold-over from British colonial rule when the Limeys used it as a stopover to refill the coal in their steamships. It's rightfully part of greater Arab Caliphate.
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Post by Jason » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:09 pm

Um... OK?

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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:11 pm

US makes squillions out of supplying Saudi with the hardware to prosecute this war.
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Post by Jason » Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:18 pm

Canada is complicit too, as they use our armoured vehicles to slaughter civilians (though to be fair they agreed not to do this and our politicians did create a minor smell about it).

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Post by JimC » Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:11 am

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