{"id":60924,"date":"2015-07-13T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=60924"},"modified":"2015-07-13T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T08:41:29","slug":"yemeni-genocide-proceeds-apace-enjoying-worlds-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/07\/yemeni-genocide-proceeds-apace-enjoying-worlds-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Genocide Proceeds Apace, Enjoying World\u2019s Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 July 15 – <\/em>[NOTE: Shortly after this story was filed, the UN announced a \u201chumanitarian pause in the country\u2019s ongoing conflict\u201d starting July 10 and expected to last a week. As framed by the UN, the \u201cpause\u201d was agreed to by \u201cYemen\u2019s President Hadi\u201d as well as the Houthis and \u201cother parties\u201d in Yemen, as if there were no other significant combatants. This deceitful framing omits the most aggressive, undeclared war-making carried out against Yemen by the US, Saudi Arabia, and sundry other UN members. The UN missive makes no mention of the months of Saudi-American bombing, even though the bombers must have agreed to a \u201cpause\u201d to make it happen. In the author\u2019s view, the pause is a good thing from a humanitarian perspective, although the previous 5-day pause in May was relatively ineffective. From the perspective of policy and politics, the \u201cpause\u201d is a sham and a delusion that will have the effect of keeping some Yemenis from starving long enough so they can be bombed. In other words, the UN continues to collude in a complex of continuing war crimes and crimes against humanity, as the article that follows argues.]<\/p>\n

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Yemeni men visit the new cemetery in Al Joob, dug specifically to accommodate the 30 men, women and children who were killed between two strikes on a public market and along a roadside. (photo: Alex Potter\/The Intercept)<\/p><\/div>\n

US and ISIS join efforts to kill Yemenis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

urns out the United States and the Islamic State, ISIS, are de facto allies of Saudi Arabia and its alliance of dictator states, all bent on\u00a0exterminating Yemeni Houthis<\/a>\u00a0and pretty much any other Yemeni in the neighborhood. This Yemenicide started in earnest in March 2015. After years of US drone strikes proved too slow and ineffective at wiping out people in the poorest country in the Arab world, it was time to expand\u00a0the arsenal of war crimes<\/a>. Rarely, in discussions of Yemen, does one hear much about the\u00a0violations of international law<\/a>\u00a0that have reduced the country to its present war-torn and devastated condition.<\/p>\n

Failing to acknowledge a\u00a0foreign policy disaster<\/a>\u00a0in Yemen, the\u00a0Obama administration has chosen<\/a>\u00a0instead to\u00a0trash international law<\/a>\u00a0by supporting the\u00a0criminal, aggressive war<\/a>\u00a0that Saudi Arabia\u2019s coalition of police states launched on Yemen on March 26. Now, despite more than three months of Saudi-American terror bombing, the Houthis remain in control of northwest Yemen, their tribal homeland, as well as much of the southeast of Yemen, having overthrown the internationally-installed puppet government, later \u201celected\u201d without any opponents, of President\u00a0Abd Rhabbuh Mansur Hadi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Obama praised Hadi as\u00a0his \u201csuccessful\u201d partner<\/a>\u00a0in attacking terrorists, by which Obama meant he was grateful to Hadi for not objecting to the US drone attacks against his own people. Hadi\u2019s legitimacy always depended on foreign puppeteers<\/a>, and it still does. Having resigned as president, fled the capital, and rescinded his resignation, Hadi fled again, to Saudi Arabia the day before the Saudi blitz began. The official story is that Hadi requested the undeclared Saudi attack on his own country. Hadi remains in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, free to go nowhere while he pretends to head a government-in-exile that is the presently desired fiction of his captor-protectors.<\/p>\n

On July 8, from Riyadh, Hadi reportedly proposed a ceasefire<\/a>\u00a0in Yemen to start before the month of Ramadan ends July 17. On July 1, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had called for a\u00a0\u201chumanitarian halt\u201d in combat<\/a>\u00a0\u201cuntil the end of the holy month of Ramadan.\u201d So far, Hadi\u2019s Saudi controllers have used the muslim holy month to rain increased\u00a0terror on populated areas<\/a>\u00a0of Yemen, killing hundreds of civilians and Houthi fighters, with no accurate count available. July 7 saw the highest death toll in Yemen since the Saudi bombing campaign began.\u00a0This bland-seeming coverage of the carnage by Reuters is riddled by propaganda deceits:<\/p>\n

The United Nations has been pushing for a halt to air raids and intensified fighting that began on March 26. More than 3,000 people have been killed since then as the Arab coalition tries stop the Houthis spreading across the country from the north.<\/p>\n

The Iran-allied Shi\u2019ite Houthis say they are rebelling against a corrupt government, while local fighters say they are defending their homes from Houthi incursions. Sunni Saudi Arabia says it is bombing the Houthis to protect the Yemeni state.<\/p>\n

The Reuters perspective represents\u00a0the mainstream consensus<\/a>, which also typically includes some of the same threads of deceit as these:<\/p>\n