The oil-weapons-war cycle and our relation to Saudi Arabia: Here's more on Yemen: Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen

Last week we discussed the Congressional vote on whether we should be helping Saudi Arabia wage war against Yemen.  We talked about the famine, similar to what happened in Biafra 50 years ago.  Here's U Michigan historian Juan Cole, saying similar things.

Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen  (Juan Cole, March 26, 2018)

Saudi Arabia and its allies bombed indiscriminately. A third of their targets have been civilian buildings like schools or hospitals or key civilian infrastructure like bridges. Perhaps half the people they’ve killed have been civilian non-combatants, including children.

Also deadly have been the public health effects of the war.

The numbers on the Saudi-led Yemen War are apocalyptic, worse even than Syria.

The total number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen is 22.2 million – or 76% of the population – including 11.3 million children.

The Saudis and allies have hit Yemen with 15,000 airstrikes.

5,000 children have been killed.

8,700 civilians have been killed

50,000 civilians have been wounded

1.9 million children are not in school, and both sides have recruited children, some as young as ten, as fighters

11.3 million children need humanitarian assistance, with many on the verge of going hungry.

All in all, 22.2 million Yemenis of all ages need humanitarian assistance, 3/4s of the population.

There have been a million cholera cases and there is the threat of another outbreak.

Worth 4:16 of your time to watch this: