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Originally Posted by Pointman
The difference is that Putin's Russia is actively bombing another country. It's killing hundreds everyday and displace millions. Saudi and China don't.
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The war in Yemen has killed over 350k people, mostly civilians, and displaced millions more.
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Alarmed by the rise of a group they believed to be backed militarily by regional Shia power and rival Iran, Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states began an air campaign aimed at defeating the Houthis, ending Iranian influence in Yemen and restoring Mr Hadi's government.
The coalition received logistical and intelligence support from the US, UK and France.
At the start of the war Saudi officials forecast that it would last only a few weeks. But six years of military stalemate have followed…
In December 2020, it reported that the conflict had caused an estimated 233,000 deaths*, including 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure.
Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or wounded as a direct result of the fighting, including more than 10,000 children.
Another monitoring group, the Yemen Data Project, had meanwhile attributed 8,780 civilian deaths to Saudi-led coalition air strikes.
UN experts say all parties to the conflict may have committed war crimes.
Four million people have been forced to flee their homes and more than 20.7 million - 71% of the population - are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance or protection for their survival.
They include 5 million who the UN says are on the brink of famine, and almost 50,000 who are already experiencing famine-like conditions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423
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PGA golfers were recently falling all over themselves in their haste to join a Saudi golf league with big prize money. So yes, we in the West seem remarkably selective in which atrocities we get worked into a collective outrage over, and which we pretty much ignore.
* That number has now reached 377,000 dead.