UN official warns of 'deliberate starvation' in Yemen

[unhappycamper]

http://www.france24.com/en/20150812-un-official-warns-deliberate-starvation-yemen

A UN official on Tuesday warned armed factions in Yemen over "the deliberate starvation of civilians", as the embattled country grapples with a food crisis that has left 850,000 children facing acute malnutrition.

UN official warns of 'deliberate starvation' in Yemen
Latest update : 2015-08-12

Six million people are "severely food insecure", the UN's special rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, said in a statement.

Armed groups besieging population centres were partly to blame, Elver said.

"Sieges in a number of governorates, including Aden, AL Dhali, Lahj and Taiz, have been preventing staple food items, such as wheat, from reaching the civilian population," the statement said.

She noted that air strikes have reportedly targeted both markets and trucks carrying food.

[think]

1. "850,000 children facing acute malnutrition."

[Fred Sanders]

2. American military buddy and oil supplier theocratic Saudi is committing mass murder...but who cares, what is Trump saying!

Saudi makes Iran look like angels.

[MisterP]

3. this clearly shows that Riyadh considers the people of Yemen--Sunni or Shiite--as the real

enemy they're fighting, as the Houthis' "rearguard"