The US-backed Saudi war in Yemen killed 100,000 and starved 250,000

Evidence

For nearly six years, Yemen has been relentlessly pummeled by a Saudi regime seeking to expand its regional footprint. Supported by the United Arab Emirates and backed by the United States, the grossly asymmetrical “war” has sunk Yemen into emergency famine and disaster. There has been no global condemnation of the war; instead, Yemenis struggling for their very survival have been met with silence, the American support of the Saudi sword, and the incessant indictment of terrorism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1187 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, offers another lurid illustration of the world of inconstancy between it and the Ukrainian struggle of self-determination. For nearly six years, Yemen has been relentlessly pummeled by a Saudi regime seeking to expand its regional footprint. Supported by the United Arab Emirates and backed by the United States, the grossly asymmetrical “war” has sunk Yemen into emergency famine and disaster. There has been no global condemnation of the war; instead, Yemenis struggling for their very survival have been met with silence, the American support of the Saudi sword, and the incessant indictment of terrorism. Fighting terrorist ghosts and the boogeyman of Iran, Saudi Arabia—armed by its close allies in Washington, DC—has license to kill Yemenis en masse. Without alarm from state actors, and without the urgency of media coverage. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1187 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US war in Yemen caused 100,000 deaths and 250,000 starvation deaths since 2015; US weapons sales to Saudi Arabia enabled famine killing hundreds of thousands of Yemenis — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 538; US naval basing and Saudi alliance interests silenced Western outcry over Bahrain’s crackdown — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 256 (+28 more)

Broader Connections

• Saudi Arabia’s US-backed war has wrought famine on Yemen without global condemnation #corroborates (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1187
• Yemen’s Saudi-led war drew silence while Ukraine’s drew global outrage #corroborates (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1187
• Civil war devastated farmland and killed 300,000 Somalis by famine #complicates (0.75)
• A widely circulated 400,000-casualty figure for the Saudi conquest was fabricated in the 1990s. #complicates (0.75) — Wikipedia contributors, Wahhabism, 171