Starvation virus

“Colleagues, what is happening in Yemen is a disgrace to all of humanity. This otherwise poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula was hit by war, famine, and then a cholera epidemic. The situation further escalated with the intervention of Saudi Arabia, which was first armed by western imperialist countries, and then of course, politically supported by them. The situation has gone so far that the United Nations have accused Saudi Arabia of war crimes for bombing waterworks, ports, food factories, hospitals. And while we give tremendous attention here in Europe to our fellow citizens who are dying of Covid in their eighth or ninth decade of life, although that too is not certain because we are not doing autopsies, we hardly see the famine virus that has ravaged Yemen. 100,000 children have died of starvation so far, and a million are severely malnourished and threatened by a similar situation. One child every 10 minutes, or 150 children by the end of this day alone. We speak of the greatest famine in the world in the last hundred years, we are talking of the loss of an entire generation. How long will this hypocrisy and double standards from both media and politics last?”

Ivan Vilibor Sinčić