US Complicity Is Fuelling Global Humanitarian Crises

Rasa - The world is still watching the United States and its regional cohorts desperately trying to destabilize Iran; little do they know that this is a deliberate design to ensure the world looks the other way while they destabilize the entire planet.

News ID: 435686

Date: 09 January 2018 - 05:26

RNA - The world is still watching the United States and its regional cohorts desperately trying to destabilize Iran; little do they know that this is a deliberate design to ensure the world looks the other way while they destabilize the entire planet. For instance:

Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar

Thanks to the Western complicity, little attention in Western media is now being given to the fact that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are still living in the cramped camps along Bangladesh Myanmar border. Victims of sexual and physical violence in the Rakhine state, women and children have been disproportionately affected by this crisis and these people’s perils are far from over in the host country Bangladesh as they continue to face multifaceted challenges.

While Myanmar has recently struck a deal with Bangladesh to repatriate the Rohingyas who have fled violence in Myanmar, it will take a very long time to send over half a million refugees and many of them will inevitably end up staying in the camps for a long time. In this context, Rohingya refugees need significant UN interventions on water and sanitation, health, and protection from violence.

Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

Yemen’s impoverished civilian population has been caught in the middle of a contagion of US-backed, Saudi-led war and hostilities with Human Rights Watch finding that 60 percent of civilian deaths have resulted from air strikes. It reports that "airstrikes have damaged or destroyed numerous civilian objects including homes, markets, hospitals, and schools, as well as commercial enterprises which appear to be in violation of international law."

This assessment is based on the monitoring of attacks that do not discriminate between military targets and civilian objects. The attacks on factories and other civilian economic structures raise serious concerns that the Saudi-led coalition has deliberately sought to inflict widespread damage to Yemen’s production capacity.

The effects of the conflict have been compounded by an air, land and sea blockade of Yemen imposed from November 2017 by Riyadh and Washington allegedly "to stem the flow of arms to the Houthis from Iran." The blockade of Hodeida port in particular has been disastrous for a country 90 percent dependent on imports, 70 percent of which came through the port. The war and blockade has pushed some seven million people to the brink of famine and left nearly 900,000 infected with cholera.

Humanitarian Crises Everywhere

These are just two latest examples of what the United States and company have done to the peoples of the planet in recent years. As with the Israeli ten-year siege of the Gaza Strip, we are witnessing the collective punishment of a civilian population in Yemen for political ends as well. The blockades of both Gaza and Yemen are causing enormous humanitarian suffering, are man-made disasters, and could easily be lifted with political will. Without urgently needed humanitarian aid and political will, post-ISIL Syria could similarly be subject to the same sort of famine and starvation the world has seen for many years and decades with millions of victims in Myanmar, Yemen, Syria, and Gaza.

Which begs the question who is next?

No doubt Western governments have been fuelling these crises through diplomatic inaction at the United Nations or lucrative weapon sales to Saudi Arabia used in its regime change campaigns to weaponize terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria or bomb Yemen. As argued by Amnesty International, “Countries such as the US, UK and France, which continue to supply coalition members with arms, are allowing Saudi Arabia and its allies to flagrantly flout international law and risk being complicit in grave violations, including war crimes.”

And complicit in war crimes, terror attacks, famine, starvation, ethnic cleansing, criminal blockades and suchlike is what the US-led warmongers have been for many years now. They refuse to immediately halt the flow of arms and military assistance to members of the Saudi-led coalition for use in Yemen. They refuse to end sending their military equipment or logistical support being used by terror proxies to destabilise Iraq, Syria and a host of other countries. They refuse to force Israel to lift its criminal blockade on Gaza.

On the contrary, they keep weaponizing their terror proxies; license billions of dollars worth of arms sales to their client states like Saudi Arabia, and continue their shameful relationship with some of the world's most racist regimes like the one in Israel. Nor is that all:

The regime changers have now turned their attention to Iran where they pretty much like to see the same sort of conflict situation, devastation and humanitarian crisis - the deliberate, indiscriminate and criminal targeting of an entire population - whatever it takes. But Iran is not Syria, Yemen or Myanmar.

The United Nations should take not. Even in the context of new ‘lows’ in its application of international laws and norms at the Security Council, any instability in Iran will destabilise the entire planet for many decades to come. This should cause international alarm and provoke immediate action at the UN. This is a moment when the Security Council should and could re-evaluate its relationship with some of its worst permanent members like the United States, and the diplomatic and humanitarian poisoning caused by its regime-change fantasies.

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