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what are they bombing yemen for? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Incorrect. While the ousted government often overlooked slavery due to corruption, the Houthis have expanded as part of their interpretation of the Quran, one shared by other nutbags like Boko Haram and Daesh.

https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/yemen/

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure the pro-genocide us state department wouldn't lie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Whereas the pro-genocide Houthis are totally beyond reproach.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do you assume that the US gov is more trustworthy than the Houthis? After all the horrible shit the US gov has done what will it take for you to stop believing it when it tells you that it's the good guy and the people it's fighting are the bad guys.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

First of all, the State Department document is just one of a variety of reports detailing the Houthi reintroduction of slavery.

Second of all, the fact you can't actually attack the contents of the report and solely argue I shouldn't believe it because you, personally, hate America undermines your argument.

Third, rape and slavery are not pasttimes in America, as they are in Houthi controlled Yemen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

America literally has penal slavery as legal within our constitution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about what about what about. One thing does not negate the other.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not because I personally hate America, the US has been helping israel commit a genocide for over a year, apparently that isn't enough for you to question their statements but it is more than enough for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except you're not "questioning" them.

You are declaring they are wrong, for no particular reason other than their source. You aren't doing anything to impeach the evidence they produce, you are refusing to even look at it. You are siding with the terrorists because they hate the same people you do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The US government has committed far more acts of terror than the houthis

You are siding with the terrorists

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From the US State Department report:

Media reports referencing muhamasheen activists noted that while social castes and slavery were abolished in the 1960s, tribal justice systems reinforced historical patterns of discrimination. The most recent estimated number of victims of modern slavery in country remained the 2018 report by Walk Free, an NGO focused on ending modern slavery. Walk Free estimated there were 85,000 victims of modern slavery in the country, or 3.1 percent of the population, but that due to the impossibility of conducting surveys under conflict, data likely underestimated the problem. This broad category included forced labor and debt bondage, human trafficking, and forced and early marriage.

This is the Walk Free report mentioned, it's referencing modern-day slavery and how vulnerable the population of Yemen is, the main being political instability. That same article shows Saudi Arabia as having over 4 times per capita more modern day slaves.

The only other article that mentions Slavery under the Houthis is Al-Awsat which is a state propaganda newspaper working at the behest of the Saudi Royal Family.

There is no mention of slavery in the 2024 HRW Report Or 2023 Amnesty Report

The Saudi puppet government that did institute slavery are what the Houthis fought and won against, and continue to face a US-Saudi genocide because of it. It'd certainly help to reduce modern day slavery if the entire population of Yemen wasn't facing a genocide.

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Guterres put the crisis in stark perspective, emphasizing the near complete lack of security for the Yemeni people. More than 22 million people out of a total population of 28 million are in need of humanitarian aid and protection. Eighteen million people lack reliable access to food; 8.4 million people “do not know how they will obtain their next meal.”

Besides Saudi Arabia, the coalition attacking Yemen includes the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait and Bahrain. Qatar was part of the coalition but is no longer.

Based on the information available to it using open sources, YDP reports that two-thirds of the coalition’s bombing attacks have been against non-military and unknown targets. The coalition isn’t accidentally attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure – it’s doing it deliberately.

The air and naval blockade, in effect since March 2015, “is essentially using the threat of starvation as a bargaining tool and an instrument of war,” according to the UN panel of experts on Yemen.

The coalition’s genocide in Yemen would not be possible without the complicity of the U.S. This has been a bipartisan presidential effort, covering both the Obama and Trump administrations.

U.S. arms are being used to kill Yemenis and destroy their country. In 2016, well after the coalition began its genocidal assault on Yemen, four of the top five recipients of U.S. arms sales were members of the coalition.

The U.S. has also provided the coalition with logistical support, including mid-air refueling, targeting advice and support, intelligence, expedited munitions resupply and maintenance.

As of February 2018, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the coalition had killed 6,000 people in airstrikes and wounded nearly 10,000 more.

Yet, according to the OHCHR report, these counts are conservative. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have also died from causes related to the war. According to Save the Children, an estimated 85,000 children under five may have died since 2015, with more than 50,000 child deaths in 2017 alone from hunger and related causes.

US complicity in the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen spans Obama, Trump administrations