The Forgotten War in Yemen Rages on: Genocide and Black-Site Prison Torture Ignored by Media - Weapons of Mass Distraction

U.S.-backed Saudi Coalition genocide of Yemenis continues with complete media silence

Little do most American know that the war in Yemen rages on, with the Yemenis enduring some of the worst human rights abuses imaginable. To illustrate just how far from the minds of the people the media cabal wants the war in Yemen to be, in a one year period between July 2017 and July 2018, MSNBC managed to cover Stormy Daniels 422 times while covering the war in Yemen a whopping ZERO times!

It truly is the forgotten war, and there is definitely a reason for this, as some of the worst atrocities and war crimes being committed by U.S. allies around the world are currently taking place in Yemen, as the following stories illustrate – namely a genocide, and secondarily a network of black-site UAE prisons in which the Yemeni prisoners are tortured in the most cruel ways imaginable, and many are killed, while the USA turns a blind eye to protect their 'allies'.

Little do most Americans know that millions of Yemeni children are anticipated to die from starvation and cholera by the end of the year, caused in large part by a Saudi Coalition military blockade on the country as well as the Coalition's concerted effort to destroy what little access to clean water the people of Yemen have left.

Amidst a second cholera outbreak in the country which has already killed thousands of Yemenis, the main cause of which is a lack of access to clean water, four Saudi warplanes bombed a water treatment facility on Sunday, which the UN said has left as many as 5,000 more children without any access to water. The water project was providing clean water to more than 25,000 people, and the damage caused by the airstrikes has cut off the supply of safe drinking water to 10,500 people. Definitely no accident, this is the third such strike on this water facility alone.

A large water facility in Sa’ada, northwest of the country, came under attack this week. This is the third such attack on the same facility. More than half of the project is now damaged, cutting off 10,500 people from safe drinking water.” - UNICEF

And as Ahmed Abdulkareem points out in his article published by MintPress News on the 25th, the destruction of water supply infrastructure is deliberate and systematic.

The U.S. backed Saudi-led coalition has repeatedly, systematically and deliberately attacked water and sewage treatment infrastructure in Yemen since it began its military campaign against the country in 2015. According to a statement to MintPress by the Legal Center For Rights and Development, an organization that tracks Saudi Arabia’s violations on international law in Yemen, 727 water pumps and tanks have been destroyed since 2015.

In one prior incident, a Saudi attack left the Al-Hamazat water system, located in the Sehar district east of Noshour, completely destroyed, leaving 7,500 people, including internally displaced families, without water. The same water system came under attack and was destroyed in 2015.

If this wasn't bad enough, bombs dropped by the Saudi Coalition have repeatedly targeted civilian homes, farms and residents in airstrikes, and have been directly responsible for the deaths of countless innocent civilians including many children. In just the past 3 months, the Saudi Coalition has twice targeted a wedding in Yemen, once in April and once earlier this month. These two airstrikes alone killed at least 31 civilians, mostly women and children, while injuring some 75 more, and these are but two of the numerous examples of the Coalition's dedication to intentionally marking civilians for death by airstrikes.

The U.S. support of Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen goes far beyond providing financial aid and weapons to the Saudi Coalition, as U.S. forces have now conducted multiple ground operations in Yemen on top of carrying out well over 100 airstrikes in Yemen this year alone. The U.S. has for several years been using drones to drop bombs on Yemen, and it seems their direct involvement in this war is only increasing as time passes.

The atrocities committed against the people of Yemen doesn't stop there, and the United Arab Emirates play a key role in this. The cruel war crimes being carried out against Yemeni civilians in secret black site Emirate prisons setup throughout the country are arguably even more horrific than the aforementioned crimes against humanity, though not responsible for as many deaths.

On July 25th, MintPress News published an article detailing the horrific story of one former prisoner of one of these secret prisons, obtained in an interview. The 55 year old Yemeni was happy to tell MintPress his story, but chose to remain anonymous, as any former prisoners of these Emirate-run torture chambers who are caught talking to the media are abducted and returned to the prisons, where they are then often killed.

“They come to strip off our clothes not to liberate us. After taking your clothes off, they tie your hands to a steel pole from the right and the left so you are spread open in front of them. Then the sodomizing starts,” a released prisoner from a secret United Arab Emirates prison black-site, who only wanted to be identified as A.F.D. in fear of retaliation, told MintPress. “Please do not mention my name.”

MintPress goes on to write that:

The 55-year-old civilian from Yemen`s southern province of Aden told MintPress he was abducted from his home and kept in a secret UAE prison for 18 months on charges of raising the flag of Yemen, signifying his support for a unified Yemen and opposition to the UAE’s military occupation of the southern district:

The former prisoner recounted his torture and the torture of others which he witnessed while he was held captive:

“They were hanging me for a long time and electrocuted me, I was screaming from beatings so intense that I could feel our cell shake, then I went unconscious,” A.F.D. told MintPress.The effects of the shocks are evident on his body. “In one of the torture sessions, four brothers [Sa’id, Abdul, Hakim and Ahmed] from the Manser family in Aden, had been hanged in front of us.”

“Cells are overcrowded, guards are cruel, there is indiscriminate violence. I even saw a young boy being raped. For a long time, he refused to eat because of the appalling shock.”

And as MintPress notes, this is not by any means an isolated story:

A.F.D.’s story is just one of thousands of Yemeni civilians who had been held without trial and tortured at a UAE-run prison in Yemen’s southern districts.

U.S. soldiers have even been photographed at some of these black-site prisons, though the U.S. officially denies knowledge of any torture taking place, which isn't too surprising as they also initially denied that torture was taking place in Guantanamo Bay, a fact which is now openly admitted. It shouldn't come as a surprise to very many that the government lies. What should come as a big surprise to most however, is that the very media whose job is thought to be the dissemination of truth and the exposing of grave injustices, atrocities and horrendous crimes against humanity such as these, is strangely silent. Very, very ominously silent.

If this anonymous whistle blower had been exposing war crimes committed by Saddam Hussein in 2003, or was exposing atrocities committed by Bashar al-Assad in secret prisons in Syria, his story would be all over the news, with available pictures of the torture victims spreading across social media like wildfire, and with every newscaster and his mother calling for foreign intervention on behalf of the victims of this gruesome torture. But as it is, America won't even hear a single mention of this brave man's testimony, they won't see a single picture of any of the victims of this barbarism, and most will remain completely ignorant to the current plight of millions of sick and starving Yemeni children who are dying by the thousands as a direct result of the U.S.-backed Saudi Coalition's genocide on the Yemeni people.

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Because instead of highlighting an ongoing genocide and the related atrocities in Yemen, the media is too busy covering Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Puerto Rico, where the House Democratic leader pledged support to help hurricane victims, or any other number of mindless distractions.

(Fox News, top world story, 7/28/18)

Yes, that's right, politicians and their media mouthpieces have to pretend to care about people, so here it's the poor hurricane victims while at the same time the U.S. military, dollars, weapons, and foreign policy is currently engaged in the orchestrated genocide of the entire population of Yemen. But who cares, right? There's partisan politics to bicker about, and entertainment to obsess over, and there's always some new Trump comment to be infatuated with, and we can't forget Russiagate, so humanity be damned.

When a few dozen Syrian children are allegedly gassed by 'Animal Assad', the media can't shut up about the gross injustice as it goes berzerk calling for U.S. action. But when Yemeni children are dying by the thousands, and civilians are being slaughtered in airstrikes by the hundreds, with hundreds more being sadistically tortured as they are held in prison indefinitely without trial, the media turns a blind eye. And this is the greatest injustice of all, to stay silent in the face of injustice, oppression and even genocide.

The media's silence on this war is their greatest weapon, and breaking that silence with the truth is the greatest weapon we as a part of humanity have at our disposal to fight back. By their silence, the media is complicit in the war crimes being committed against the people of Yemen, and it's about time this silence is broken, as the people deserve to hear the truth, and these atrocities must come to an end.

This forgotten war must be remembered, as the lives of millions of Yemeni children are currently hanging in the balance, and their fate as well as the fate of countless other Yemenis depend upon the truth getting out, and being heard by the people. Sadly, this reality is not confined to Yemen. Whether in Palestine, Syria, Yemen or Ukraine, U.S. foreign policy is constantly killing people by the hundreds. The media is complicit in covering up these atrocities and it is time for this evil Empire to die, starting with the media cabal that constantly programs the minds of the masses.

(This story was originally a part of a much longer post exposing the media's distraction from important world news, which can be seen at this link: https://steemit.com/informationwar/@jasonliberty/as-u-s-foreign-policy-kills-hundreds-of-people-this-week-media-obsesses-over-russiagate-economy-trump-and-a-painted-donkey)