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handmade34

(22,756 posts)
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:26 AM Dec 2018

starvation in Yemen...piggyback on babylonsister's post...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211545443

a picture worth a thousand words....



from the NYT for those who can't access.....

"This Is What Our Yemen Policy Looks Like"

I’m giving up most of my column space today to introduce you to Abrar Ibrahim, a 12-year-old girl in Yemen who weighs just 28 pounds. Nothing I write can be as searing or persuasive or true as Abrar is in this photo.
Abrar is starving in part as a consequence of the American-backed Saudi Arabian war in Yemen. Members of the United States Congress are considering measures that would end our country’s support for the war. They should look at Abrar. Her emaciation reflects the reality that United States policies are contributing to the deaths of children in Yemen by the tens of thousands.
It is wrenching for me as an American to travel across this country and see the toll of my country’s actions. The most common war casualty in Yemen is not a soldier with a bullet but a child who is starving.



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starvation in Yemen...piggyback on babylonsister's post... (Original Post) handmade34 Dec 2018 OP
Genocide is Saudi Arabia's solution to its more populous JCMach1 Dec 2018 #1
yes, but the point is handmade34 Dec 2018 #2

JCMach1

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1. Genocide is Saudi Arabia's solution to its more populous
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:36 AM
Dec 2018

But impoverished neighbor... They don't care.

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