Children Being Killed, People Cooking Leaves to Survive in Yemen

As the UN envoy steps up efforts to revive talks to end the three-year-old civil wa r, fighting is intensifying across the country. But it is the country's civilians that bear the brunt of the suffering, forced to eat vegetation in spite of the adverse side effects it causes.

The people of Yemen have found themselves struggling not only for survival, but for a space in the Western media's war coverage. In the shadow of the conflict in Syria, the men, women and children of Yemen are being deliberately starved and targeted by strategic airstrikes and an illegal blockade in a war initiated by Saudi Arabia and aided, massively if not entirely, by the United States.

The people of Yemen have found themselves struggling not only for survival, but for a space in the Western [white] media’s war coverage. [MORE]