updated 28th February 2020
updated 15/3/2020

Bloodlands:

Saudi Arabia's War In Yemen

[Let The Pictures Tell The Story Of Why 10-Year Old Yemeni Boys Train As Snipers - Would You Not Do the Same If The Saudis Destroyed Your Home, Your School, Your Hospital And Did This To Your Family?]

I thought for a long time about how to tell this story:how one of the the richest country on the planet is butchering innocent civilians of one of the poorest - it's next door neighbor. Then I remembered something: this is the history of humanity - so what's new? The actors are different but the stage is still the same.

It's a tragedy on many levels.  The Saudis will bomb a hospital or school in Yemen then, when the Western or Asian Media highlights the story, offer 'Blood Money' (to mollify a confused  public audience) to the Houthi victims.  This money is of course never paid by the Saudis, who have been 'well-trained' on how to 'manage' the Press.

At another level (and this you may find hard to believe) with Western connivance, Saudi Arabia has been 'stealing' the oil wealth from below the ground of one of the poorest countries on the planet - Yemen - for over half a century and using it's influence (and wealth) to ensure the Yemenis never get justice.

(That is a territorial and contour issue I will not address here.)

The pictures are taken by local photojournalists and occasionally by independent foreign journalists - from countries like Germany, Austria and Italy.

The objective of the photojournalists is not to make money but to show the depths of human despair in the hope that someone with power and influence - Senators and Congressmen and Congresswomen - or someone close - even one individual  - might someday see these horrific images and resolve to end this carnage. An influential person, perhaps, who is not reliant on Saudi patronage and has some mercy for these unfortunate victims.

Because there is (and never will be) no justice for these victims I am not even calling for War Crimes trials (which will never happen because all such trials are political) but just an end to this bloody carnage perpetrated by Saudi Arabia.

I am not even going to appeal and say 'what if it was your father son or daughter, brother or sister, husband wife aunt or grandparents' who were butchered like this, but only to ask that you use your influence to bring this suffering of civilians to an end.

If you are religious, have you ever thought about how much more money will you need in the after life to buy back your soul if you do nothing about this senseless slaughter and butchery of innocent civilians in this War Zone?

Nothing will ever bring these victims back to life - but you can save your own soul in the after life if , even now, at this late stage, you do something to make a difference to the life or death of future innocent Yemeni civilians.

I am not even calling for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia (which occupies an address in a very dangerous neighborhood) but that they be told that the United States will no longer ignore, at any price, this senseless tribal butchery and will not continue any longer to embargo Yemen ports nor airports.  

(Be assured, when the U.S. changes policy on Yemen, so too will follow the British and the European Union.)

U.S. politicians will sometimes ask as a counter-argument for supporting the Saudi campaign in Yemen  'why do Yemenis ask for support from Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah?'

Rumi answered this question nearly a thousand years ago:

''If thou hast not seen the Devil look at thine own self''

[and why is all this butchery and carnage by Saudi Arabia in Yemen permitted by the Christian West?  Money of course.
The wealth Saudi Arabia transfers to the West far outweighs the weight of innocent blood spilled (below) on these scales  PE] 

Patrick Emek, February 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi





There was some hope last year that the war might be nearing an end.  Unfortunately this is not the yet the case.  This article will also give you some background to the ongoing Saudi conflict in Yemen.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/09/05/breaking-us-blinks-first-wants-end-to-yeman-war-god-bless-the-houthis/



Additional photos (some not already included) in this .pdf file:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nWPOPQXH1x4slv9NF7vj0m-H2QKETkl3











some images below are duplicates in total there are approximately 239

Update at 15/3/2020
These are even more distressing photos of Saudi Arabia's primary targets in Yemen than those previously published at 'Blogger.'

The point you must take away from these photos is that
War Crimes Tribunals are political instruments used by victors and powerful countries to punish their rivals or vanquished 'score' a political point(s) or further other military, economic and territorial agenda(s.)
For this reason their only validity is that they reinforce the belief that 'War Criminals' exist.
The term itself, is, sadly, entirely subjective.

Warning:

The next 50 photos are very distressing.

Please do not view unless you are prepared to see what really happens in a War Zone.

If you are in Junior Military Cadet School you must ask permission from your CO before viewing.


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Earlier Photos: