Yemen. Why Doesn’t the World Care?
Yemen is on the verge of extinction. What are we doing?!
War. Famine. Epidemic. Pandemic. Bombs, death, destruction, and in the midst of it all, the monster that carves up your insides and sucks your life little by little, giving you a prolonged, painful death — hunger. Starvation.
Have you seen the devastating photographs of the little Yemeni children, their skin plastered to their bones, their eyes large and pleading? Have you heard them praying for deliverance from God?
We gasp as the tweets pop-up on our timelines because the graphic pictures disturb us. We pretend. We pretend we are disturbed at the state of those children, while in reality, we are only angry that the tweet caught us unawares, that it didn’t come with a trigger warning so we could have scrolled past hurriedly, oblivious as usual.
So for those of you who don’t know — here’s what’s happening in Yemen, and why things are worse than ever before.
Ravaged by a civil war that has killed more than a 100,000 people and displaced millions of others in five years, and flattened the country’s healthcare system — with hospitals lacking beds and basic equipment, and sick people being turned away because there is nothing the care workers could do for them — Yemen is going through the worst…
