One fact that was failed to be mentioned, is that a single country is fighting this genocide, pushing back the Saudis, and actually feeding these kids.
Want to know who that country is???
IRAN
Same as when Sebrinca was massacred and 1000s of rape camp were set up.
The UN and Albright was dithering on definition of "Genocide and UN " Dutch Peace Keepers" were standing around because a FAX was not sent "officially asking for help". Yes, you read that right a FAX.
Iran had Iran Air 747 Jets landing DAILY in Bosnia supplying food, medicine, guns.
IRAN, yes IRAN.
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https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=1904
Here is Charity Navigator for helping in Yemen
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“This is our job as journalists: to bear witness, to give voice to those who are otherwise abandoned, victimized and forgotten.” And in addition, to bare, by word and image, the toxic, ever-expanding WE-THEY cultures and worlds which enable, even foster, daily violating. Of created, selected, targeted “the other(s).”All too often disempowered. All too easily and legally.Marginalized. Excluded. Dismembered in their homes-in-name-only by “democratic” US profit-making bombs. In Yemen. By human-wronging Allies! Dehumanized in form. By documented policy-purposed-“faminization.” Noted by healthy data-collectors.Who may BE come traumatized. Journalistic words and images which may never be transmuted from numbers, representing THE VIOLATED, into adjudicating of crimes-against-humanity. Even as they offer each of US, who chooses to be concerned, the stench of never to be forgiven, or forgotten, ummenschlichkeit. The baring of enabled barbarism, by bearing witness, needs to include more. Deeper documentations.Daily. WHO is enabled to violate with impunity. By word and deed. The unborn? Infants? Children? Adults? Those values, norms, and ethics, which underpin equitable well being for ALL? With its necessary, equitable, shared human and nonhuman resources? Everywhere! What does one need to know, and to understand, to effectively bear up, and over, to what all of US enable? And make changes. To infectious willful blindness? Deafness? Ignorance? Toxic “tweets” and twittering? Bear?Bare?
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Why publish? Because our U.S. bombs are used by our Saudi ally too indiscriminately bomb a nation to bits. This has been going on for years now, causing one of the world's worst cholera epidemics, and now mass starvation. And to make us remember that suddenly worldwide attention is drawn to one horrific act in the Istanbul Saudi consulate, while tens of thousands have been lost their lives in Yemen.
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Thank you for publishing them. And for the commenters who have merely asked, “How can we help?”
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Actually, FaceBook is making the decision, at least for me. My sharing of the article was removed for violating community standards.
Fortunately the FaceBook page of the NYT operates under different community standards.
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Is there a response to the previous post? I can't access it. Please let us know if there is a place to donate money for these starving children. This is hideous and like Sam I want to give in whatever small and insubstantial way I can. Nauseating. How can this be our world.
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Yes, this was a long overdue call to attention by the NYTimes! If we've all been ignoring this horrible war up to now, probably it is because our noses have not been rubbed in its worst consequences! Perhaps Khashoggi's death has served to wake us up, finally.
This report by Declan Walsh & photographed by Tyler Hicks brought tears to my eyes & a desolated feeling about the boundless cruelty of humans to their fellow beings. To visit this degree of political animosity on the innocent population of Yemen is beyond evil & surely must be redressed in some manner. The Saudis, the Houthis, the Iranians & we Americans (for supporting the Saudis & supplying the bombs & other military equipment) are all culpable, but the Saudis most of all for starting this debacle & continuing to target civilians while denying it.
How can we who have any conscience allow ourselves to remain aligned with this heartless country & its brutish & amoral crown prince? But who among those now in power here in the U.S. will lift a finger to make the drastic change that is necessary???
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As your article even admits, food is available in local markets but unaffordable to the many poor. Before the current war, Yemen was long dependent on foreign aid. Families couldn’t feed their five or more children even beforehand. Yemen has long lacked sufficient water and arable land.
The arguments in this piece are absurd. Why would a government pay the salaries of people behind enemy lines? Paying people in the Iranian controlled territory allows the Houthis to siphon off money and continue the war indefinitely. If the Iranians can smuggle in weapons, they can surely send money to fund salaries. They control the territory. They’re responsible for the people.
The Houthi soldiers are well feed, and its leaders refuse to negotiate. Iran’s ayatollahs could care less if Yemenis starve. Iran only cares about its proxy army gaining control of an access point to the Suez Canal. It’s not just the Saudis and UAE who are responsible.
Don’t kid yourself. You’re not just trying to report the news. You’re strategically selecting the most gratuitous images to drive a pro-Iranian political agenda.
This story must be told and retold until the world listens. This is unacceptable that children are being thrown out like worthless garbage to die painful deaths. World organizations must get involved immediately. The United States must get involved today. How can I send money to help?
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are american bombs, purchased by the saudis, implicated in this horror?
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Please tell us how to help. You have captured our attention w these brutal pictures. Pls tell us what to do to help.
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Great reporting; let’s hope it will have some impact- I’m sure most Americans are not even aware of this horrible conflict
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The Saudi gov't has always been a despicable human rights abuser and for decades a primary supporter of terrorists, including the 9/11 hijackers.
Now they are invading a neighbor.
When will OUR government say "ENOUGH!" to this degenerate royal family that couldn't rule w/o our weapons and protection?
Haven't we killed and oppressed enough people ourselves in the Middle East? Why do we need to help the Saudis kill more?
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Bravo! Our people have either forgotten or never knew how very spoiled we Americans are. Thank you far your dose of reality. The very real reality of suffering. Life and death.
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I don't think the editors of the NYTimes need to justify their decision to publish these pictures.
I'm wondering why, after decades of award winning photojournalism and a long history of influential war coverage, why did the New York Times take so long to publish these horrific photos?
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You're publishing them because the Saudis finally killed somebody that you recognize as an actual human being. The murders in Yemen have been going on for years and the Times hasn't cared one bit. You still don't care about these dying kids; they're just a prop to make your old friend KSA look bad now that it's done something you disapprove of.
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Thank you, NYT.
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Thank you for this moving, horrific story and photos. Every newspaper in the country should be featuring photos of these starving children everyday until our elected representatives stand up and do the right thing. To sit by and let this tragedy go on is maddening and doing nothing is akin to evil.
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I scanned your front page, and tried not to see the photos, but they keep haunting me. Thanks to your reporters for doing this painful work - as I imagine most of us avoid such trauma - and witnessing that must be trauma. Frankly, ever since Trump, I've been treating my psyche with kid gloves as our own current state of affairs leads to hopelessness. But thank you for bringing us to reality and reporting what's important. Also, I like others, had a strong reaction to Jamal Khashoggi's murder - so barbaric and obviously a way to silence journalists. Very significant how Trump responded - in my mind it's an important story.
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I was thinking the same thing as Sam. What can we do that will help the most? Please let us know.
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I applaud your decision to publish photos of the crisis in Yemen. It’s important for us to see the unfortunate situations that these citizens are going through. It’s such a shame that it is not a result of fighting, but a deliberate attack on their livelihood and the Saudis and their allies. The rest of the world is up in arms about the gruesome murder of one man, rightfully so, but we must hear the stories of the hundreds of thousands of children and their families who are being cruelly starved to death through economic warfare.
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You'd have to be a pretty odd person to WANT to look at these images. Nobody WANTS to see these scenes. They are horrifying. But if we bury our heads in the sand and pretend this isn't happening and that immense cruelty doesn't exist in the world, then we allow it to propagate. Not only do we allow other people to continue suffering, we do a great disservice to our own souls, which cannot thrive in an artificial, walled-in bubble. The NYT gets it spot on: we need people who are willing to bear witness, to give voice to those who are otherwise abandoned, victimized and forgotten.
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These reports from Declan Walsh with photos are important, gruesome and very necessary for us to see. What can we do to hlep? There must be something.
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With all their wealth, the saudis never got beyond barbarism. And I guess that’s what sometimes wealth does; it obliterates reality.
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Please keep publishing these images. I am an international aid worker of 20 years. This has gone on too long.
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Thank you for publishing these images. They are a rebuke to anyone who believes that the proper path for the U.S. is to withdraw from the affairs of other nations.
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Very difficult to look at but I am grateful you bring attention to the situation in Yemen. Like one commenter has already mentioned, look across this planet and you will find an unbearableness number of people are suffering. What can we do and where oh where is the U.N.?!
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For those looking to support an organization, try the World Food Programme
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Yes, these photographs are painful to look at but look we must. This is part of ethical journalism - bringing the horrors of abusive, cruel governments to the light of day.
I too, wish to know what charities are working within Yemen to help care for and to feed these starving children. I want to do my small part to help.
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I remember advertisements, charity events, TV shows during the Ethiopian famine many years ago. There was an onslaught of emaciated photos of children to such an extent that people couldn't take it anymore and either gave money or turned away from it both physically and emotionally.
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I think it is cruel to publish such pictures without directing readers to places where they can help. Otherwise you are making us helpless voyeurs into unthinkable suffering.
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These poor children starving and dying because we have sold Saudi Arabia massive amounts of military equipment so they can continue there offensive in Yemen. Is the Red Cross there or any human rights organization? Where is all this money from these huge arms sales going....to pay for US wars in Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq and soon enough Iran. Why are we allowing this to happen?
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Thank you for sharing the shocking but helpful photos. It's shocking for obvious reasons, but at the same time, it helps us to open our eyes to the reality of those suffering in parts of the world we Americans are rarely exposed to. Such photos, however, carry with them a heavy burden: this burden on the viewer to either remain stoically passive or to acknowledge that such suffering is unacceptable and to offer some relief.
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This is incredibly disturbing. How can our Country let this happen? I believe this administration has lost all of our values.
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The United States is complicit in the deaths of these children by our military involvement with Saudi Arabia. This toll on innocent civilians will increase if the US arms sale is approved to this most violent regime. I applaud the NYT for its courage in shining a light on the true nature of our relationship with the Saudis.
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Bring it on and shame on us...in California, The radio intones Gravely that across the United States over 1 million American children are without Internet! I’m not making that up, it’s true too. And churches for the most part stand Idly by, in large swaths of USA, Swamped with concerns for their own parishioners, the homeless and the needy in their neighborhoods. Few among us it seems can be anything but in different to the plight of the truly disadvantaged and the rest of the world. We are too too busy using our devices to measure how many steps we’ve taken each day, how many miles our feet have covered, How many calories we deny ourselves so that we can live longer, While our groceries overflow with so-called organic produce and folks are too busy to cook, let alone shop for their food. Hasn’t anyone figured out that the universe really is not infinite? There’s a finite amount of good, of wealth, of food, of generosity in the world. The only way the rest of the world will get their share is if we Share and tried to do with a lot less.
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You are doing the right thing by posting these photos. It is not only your moral responsibility to call attention to this genocide, but also ours as individuals and a nation to act upon it. We are complicit with this atrocity if we either look away or waste words of sympathy yet do nothing to help the desperate. I include particularly our leaders whether it be our government or places of worship.
I recall a prayer during my Catholic education. It is the Prayer of St. Francis. To quote a small part: “Make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” “Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light.”
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Many people are asking “ what can we Do ??? “. YES, by all means donate to reputable Aid Organizations ( goggle Yemen Aid Organizations ) for short, emergency help. BUT, the really change the situation, WE must change OUR government. Neuter the Presidential Apprentice. VOTE in November. We must stop any association with Saudi Arabia, as long as they are MURDERING these people. It IS absolutely Ethnic Cleansing, of the slow and agonizing variety. I’m forcing myself to read all the material, and really look at the photos. I’m heartbroken, and extremely pissed - off. Join me, and get to work. VOTE.
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People all over the world demonstrated against the Vietnam war. The news media did a much better job in the 60's informing the world of the hell in Vietnam. Why is the story of Yemen mostly ignored? Without more information from the news media this travesty will continue, more children will starve or be bombed to death. This is tragic. I felt sorrow and regret when I saw these pictures. Most people do not know what is happening in Yemen and if people do not know what is happening they will not respond. There is so much reported and written about Trump's tweets that we do not need to know. Maybe the news media needs to wake up and get their priorities right. We need these pictures on the nightly news and on the cable networks. Show these pictures and the world will wake up. Tell us what's happening and how we can help.
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I am thrilled with NYT's recent expose of the Saudi's brutal war. This and the previous article on this subject are the very best of what journalism can do and be. The true power of a news outlet to do good, and to be intensely relevant to human welfare, comes out here. Aside from going to Yemen oneself, what can better help us feel the unconscionable and wanton immorality of the US, UK and other countries providing the Saudi's weapons and assistance to do this? Behind these horrifying photographs lies another horrifying portrait of the human condition: arms sales — nations trafficking billions of dollars worth of weapons of war, and even assisting in their use, while closing their eyes to victims. In a true service to humanity, the NYT presentations have made us open our eyes. Now we must all write letters to Congress to end this appalling sociopathic cruelty.
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How can I help feed this child?
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Can someone please inform us of organizations to which we can make financial donations? I want to give in whatever small and insubstantial way I can.
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@Sam Médecins sans Frontières - Doctors without Borders (MSF) works on Yemen and is highly trustable. Although malnutrition is present,is not the only program MSF runs there as the issue is more complex than just "hunger".
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@Sam I tend to donate to IRC (International Rescue Committee) but I am sure there are many other worthy organizations on the ground also in Yemen.
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I have family in Sana'a, Yemen, and I lived and worked there for some time. We contribute to Mercy Corps, Doctors Without Borders, and a local Yemeni group (PLD Food Distribution) that is run by a Yemeni woman who is a friend and former colleague of my Dutch daughter-in-law. You can see its posts on Facebook.
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These images are intended to shock the audience into caring. I can't weigh in on whether I think it'll be effective.
What shocks me is the opinions explicitly stated in the related article, and implicitly stated, that only 'The West' has the power to care or to alleviate these monstrous crimes. Where is the outrage in the Arab world? Why is the president of Turkey shouting about a dead journalist when millions are starving? Why are we following suit?
American progressive liberals (of which I am one) are happy to take to the streets to denounce Israel (whose policies I also think deserve protest), but I feel the hypocrisy is blatant.
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@Kyle Schwartz, The dying babies and children and parents, don't care about our politics. They want to eat.
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It is way too late for too many now, but if this is one result of the violent death Mr. J. Kashoggi suffered, leaving the NYT with a "voice for those who have no Ambassadors" than his death is a martyrers death we cannot "value" high enough. Alone, those who are complicit in Yemen's slow death most likely will not be punished at all.
Will this report make the world a better place? Probably not, but the NYT is taking its last chance to be a serious 'voice` in preserving the duty of journalism. For our society it is a Holocaust of 21st century magnitude!
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Thank you for your courage to give voice to people whom the world has forgotten. My wife’s family is trapped in Yemen. I cannot show her these images. She is haunted and helpless enough already. We send money but are numb to hope—not because the war cannot stop, but because we know those who profit from it have all the power to end it yet no incentive.
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This has not escaped the world's attention. I've been hearing about it for years. Diplomats have been working on it for years. However, now it has captured the MEDIA's attention, which means that they have decided to use their power to stir consciences to express outrage over someone other than Trump and the plight of journalists. The NYT could print a different front story like this every day of the year by covering the globe with a spotlight on innocent human suffering, caused by wars and failed governments, as in Yemen. It seems like readers are responsive, but it will remain to be seen how the coverage will bring about a massive enough response to make a difference.
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@Louise Phillips
well said!
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I posted the front page article this morning on Facebook, and they removed it for "violating community standards." I posted it again. We'll see if it remains. If they take it down again, I think that will be the final straw that makes me leave Facebook. I'm pretty sure if they do that then "decency" doesn't mean what they think it means. We need to see this.
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@Jane Mars I have had absolutely no problem sharing this on Facebook. Don't mis-direct your anger. Channel it to help those in need.
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And our government is supporting the war that is causing these brutal, painful conditions. Thank you New York Times for bringing it to our attention. Now we need to stop our country from supporting this brutality.
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This work requires little explanation, and no apology whatsoever. It is excellent, deep, spare reportage. The incomparable Tyler Hicks is at the top of his powers. My sympathies for him, after producing this work, are as deep as my respect.
This is indeed a 'slow-motion' crisis; it isn't spot news. These horrendous photos are absolutely necessary to slow frames to a standstill, to make people look, to consider what is going on in real time, *now*.
It is important to know what must be done to "help" -- Yemen needs not just material aid, but the cessation of proxy wars on its domain -- but it is more important simply to know *that this is happening*, in real time, now. Hicks and Walsh focus our attention; that attention must now ascend to our political leadership. Good luck with that.
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NYT can you please suggest a humanitarian organization that we can donate to in order to help. As a human being and especially as a parent of a toddler, seeing this is beyond heart-breaking. We waste our food and these children are dying because they cannot afford it.
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Of course you should publish and thank you for doing so. I knew it was bad but the images made me see how bad. I read it just after I fed my two children - 2 years and 6 months. I wished I could have fed all of those poor hungry children.
But we need more. What can we do? How can we help? I don’t just want to see these photos and be left feeling helpless.
Please, help us help them.
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Modern wars are about the senseless deaths of innocent civilians and the massive destruction of cities and towns. Your journalists and photographers who cover these conflict zones are heroes in my book.
Everyone of us bears some responsibility for this immoral horror. While most of us in the West sit comfortably in our living rooms, watching the news on television, and remaining detached from this brutality, we must not look away, we cannot. We must act to stop wars.
I am stunned by this story.
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Thank you for your great journalism and integrity. Exposing the consequences of this so called forgotten war is important. We owe it to the voiceless victims of this awful tragedy. My hope is that enough people communicate their opinion on this to their lawmakers.
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You have a moral obligation to publish these pictures and make it continuously the headline news as long as the US insists in keeping unjustifiable financial support to the Saudi Regime.
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I am so grateful NYT share the picture. Those picture explain beyond the words. People have to aware that there are so many important issues behind the news has spread, there are many important things to look at.
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Tell us the countries/political groups who are supporting this continuing horror with their money and military hardware.
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Utmost respect for the NYT.
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Too bad you cant drop hundreds of these photos over the Saudi royal palace MBS can see his handiwork up close.
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@Hallie
He would enjoy that tremendously. Let us not make his day.
Yemen is a country with a culture going back thousands of years, Saudi Arabia is a jumped-up creation of crude, primitive barbarians superficially decked out in oil riches, one of whose whose favorite methods of punishing troublemakers is-crucifixion. A country that only exists because, unfortunately, it sits on much of the world's oil supplies. And Yemen has more than twice the population of Saudi Arabia.
When the oil finally runs out, Saudi Arabia will collapse, and perhaps fall into the hands of the superior age-old Yemeni civilization. The basic objective of the Saudi war is to exterminate as much as possible of the Yemeni population, so that there will be fewer Yemenis than Saudis.
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How can we help?
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You did the right thing.
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Thank you for the view of their world. I feel sick, sad, ashamed.
But now I know what atrocities came before the torture and brutal murder of Khashoggi. Something perhaps even more brutal: the torture and murder by starvation of millions of innocent children.
Absolutely appalling to have food but no money to buy it. And now I shall make every attempt to avoid spending my money to fill the pockets of anyone who supports, covers up, or does business with the soulless butchers committing these crimes against humanity.
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I would rather have an explanation of why you waited so long.
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The Yemen 'civil' war has been underway for over three and a half years. Help me understand why it took so long for news editors (not just the NYT) to give it the priority it deserves.
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“It is a slow-motion crisis brought on by leaders of other countries who are willing to tolerate extraordinary suffering by civilians to advance political agendas.”
No. Not just other countries. The US government supported this war, including with aerial refueling, starting in 2015 under Obama and under both Obama and Trump the US government lied about Saudi atrocities, claiming that civilians were only killed by accident. If I have time later I will supply you with actual video and transcripts of John Kirby doing this on September 28 2016 and of course the Trump Administration has been even more dishonest, most recently with Pompeo claiming that the Saudis are not violating the laws of war.
The article showing the children is necessary, but the NYT continues to whitewash or soft pedal the role of the US and to a lesser extent, Great Britain. And you should have been covering the story more all along.
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Pictures like this should be on page 1 above the fold every day along side a picture of US midair refueling of a Saudi aircraft.
The American people largely do not read but if they see a picture, it is real and not fake news.
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Or you could have simply covered Yemen consistently as a worthy news story over the last several years. There was no need for the world's worst humanitarian crisis to "come to light" (as stated in today's sub-headline on the front page) only now. You could have just, you know, covered the news.
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As awful as it is, we need to know the truth.
We need to read it, see it, feel it and share it. And then hopefully something can be done about it. At least we will have a better idea of what is going on.
People like Tyler and Declan are brave to capture it and share it and we continue to rely on the editors at the NYT to publish it.
The truth matters, and we need to know it.
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Hmmm...I learned about the severe tradgedies in Yemen from independent conservative media last year...when no one in the mainstream was talking about it. Shame on NYT for not bringing this to light sooner. Instead they choose to publish useless stories about what was said or done 10 years ago and have very little relevance compared to important stories like this one.
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Thank you.
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Thank you NYT for someone finally showing what we, yes WE, are doing to the poor people of Yemen by directly helping Saudi Arabia in its genocidal war against Yemen. We are refueling their bombers to drop our bombs on the target we provide to them. My hope is that the American people will put pressure on their elected representatives to cut the funding and support of this genocide.
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Thank you for sharing this information, but please tell us how we can help.
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Yes, please inform us how we can help!
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You state that the tragedy of Yemen has been brought on by “other county’s leaders” willing to tolerate the suffering in the country. In fact, the leaders of our country, America, have been complicit in bringing about that suffering. America, is a de facto members of the Arab coalition that is blockading Yemen. America arms the coalition, it trains its pilots, it aids in choosing the coalition’s Yemeni targets and it refuels the coalition’s planes. The American administration and Congress are as responsible for the suffering in Yemen as are the other coalition members.
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It’s important that we see, but now, what do we do?
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@Faith Jongewaard
Yes, what can we do?
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Call and write to your Congresspersons and tell them to stop US support for this terrible war.
You can go online and find organizations providing aid. We give to Mercy Corps, Doctors Without Borders and a Yemeni group called PLD Food Distribution run by a friend of our family.
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Deep deep gratitude to Declan and Tyler for all you went through--both physically and emotionally--to bring this truth to us. What would The Times be if it opted to protect itself, or its readers, from this painful reality? And what will humanity become when we choose to look away from such appalling sadness or fail to acknowledge our (US) complicity in creating it? Thank you for your every effort to arouse us from our first world stupor.
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the pictures do the job. This is horrible. Its amazing that we stand by while this is happening.
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We've gotten into bed with the Devil in a number of places, selling our souls for...what? Our self-centered opinions about right or left thinking? Our thoughtless use of oil and oil based products without knowing how the piper is paid? Our demand for oil is funding atrocities. Do we *really* need Saudi Arabia? I'm turning out the lights, walking to work, biking to the store, putting on a sweater, and not leaving my computer/printer/monitor turned on. I'm writing my senator/congressman. And I'm VOTING for sanity, morals and the return of American VALUES on November 6th.
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We all depend on the NYT for articles like this. Thank you for your courage and commitment. How do we help?
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As citizens of one of the powers responsible for this horror we should absolutely have to face the consequences of policies carried out in our name. We should also voice our reactions. Loudly. And at the polling booth. I only wish the NYT had run this earlier. As always, Tyler Hicks’ photos are powerful, beautiful, devastating.
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Agree with other comments that this article needs a follow-up. It is not enough to support aid organizations on the ground although this is needed. Information regarding government policy makers and relevant congressional committees for lobbying would be helpful.
I often with our government today feel like a helpless bystander.
We are a world insensitive to pain and suffering unless it is our own.
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This war and this devastation has been going on for several years, with only independent journalists writing about it. The question is not why has the extreme cruelty now caught the world's attention, but why has it only caught the attention of the MSM, NYT included, with all the resources available to you for reporting on the atrocities (as this article clearly shows)??
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The real tragedy is that the cause of the unconscionable suffering of Yemen, like so much of the world, is that it has been a pawn caught in the global chess game of superpowers unwilling to allow their fixated grip on power over others to change. Ultimately we all lose.
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I cried for these children and their families. Can you recommend a place where we can donate money to help? What we should write to our elected officials about?
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As long as we are tied to oil, allow millions from Saudi Arabia to go to American lobbyists(as reported by this newspaper), as long as we don't face the worldwide crisis coming very soon because of the underpinnings of Capitalism with the profit motive writ large, we will see a country like Yemen essentially collapse. Until we have a leader willing to face up to the fractures in our civilization, I fear we will be living with evil for breakfast.
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Thank you. Difficult to look at, but necessary.
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Thank you for having the moral courage to publish the pictures. This is genocide. We Americans, all of us, are complicit. This is fueled in our name.
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Thank you for your journalistic bearing witness. It is an absolute necessity.
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It is unconscionable that we sell military equipment and support a regime that uses it to wage a war that kills and starves millions of innocent people.
Are we doing this because it creates jobs? As a US citizen I care more about saving lives than taking them. We have a responsibility as a world leader to lead by example, and we are failing.
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"when will they ever learn..."
apparently, never.and these
are the so called leaders
whom we do business with
and who sit on human rights
commissions at the UN.
nothing changes. in all the
years I have been on earth,
I have seen these pictures
again and again and again.
only the countries change.
the children, always the poor
children pay the price.
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Publishing the photos is a first step. Showing us how we can help is the next one.
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It's important that the public see these photos and be moved to take action. I have called my reps before to remove arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and I will call again. The photos along with the suspicious circumstances surrounding the journalists death should be enough to cool our relationship with Saudi Arabia.
There are also organizations helping these people we can donate to. It doesn't matter how far away it is - to see children suffer like this, we need to do something.
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could you list aid agencies that are most effective in providing relief in Yemen?
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We must stop viewing tragedies through a political lens and do all we can to stop them. Our decisions on who is a freedom fighter and who is a terrorist have no relevance to these children. I hope I never hear the argument again that we should arm Saudi Arabia because they are containing the “largest state sponsor of terrorism”.
Thank you for publishing these photos and my sincere gratitude to reporters who cover this story and others like it. Please continue informing us.
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This is why photojournalism matters. These images are devastating, which is why we need to see them. We must not look away, we must not pretend it isn't happening.
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Our country is involved in this horror, by our association with Saudi weapons supplying, bombing and American technical help that has resulted in bombed schools and buses of children.
Surely the NYT or some of its readers can get through to the department of state to get a diplomatic space to intervene with humanitarian aid.
Yes I want to look away too- but I suspect it is not the viewing of the suffering that hurts the viewer so much, but the idea that no one will do anything to stop this insane criminal violence against a country so poor it cannot even give its people basics of life and security.
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Please follow up with any steps that we can take to help these dying and forgotten children. Is there anything readers can do? If the writing and images are intended to spark awareness and action, please convey what action can be taken.
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We support publishing of these raw photos. First, as news readers, this is news.
It is time that America stop "isolating," and realize, beyond its borders, that people around the world are suffering. Finding awareness, empathy, and contributing to organizations to help is good. If someone can't handle these photos, it is a personal issue and not the paper's. The NYT is doing once again its job.
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Well done. The power of photo/journalism to effect social change.... I'm in awe. Thank you. Keep it up.
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No question that these photos should be published, people should know what war crimes are being paid for in their name by their tax dollars. People should feel unsettled. Feeling unsettled is not anywhere near the pain and suffering the Yemenis are feeling. Starving to death is an excruciatingly painful (and absolutely avoidable) way to die, and to visit such barbarity (among the bombs, disease and many others) purposely on the Yemenis is inhumane, unconscionable and a war crime.
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The world needs to see the visual of these horrific realities. Words don't grasp the imagination of malice and greed in the world anymore. A sad and staggering piece done with dignity.
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"And yet somehow the vast catastrophe has failed to catch the world’s attention as much as the murder of a single man, the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul."
Wondering why this catastrophe was only appropriately covered now, only after the-horrific- death of a journalist (who by the way was a strong associate of the regime until 2 years ago, and was never a loud critique of the brutal war in Yemen).
Nevertheless, thanks for sharing
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Perhaps those in the US administration who keep telling us how important it is to protect all life is will see these and use their influence to override the industrial interests that have kept our country complicit in this crisis.
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@faith You are dreaming. They only life those currently in the administration seem to care about is unborn. They don't care about the mother's of these babies or about other children who are alive and suffering. Show me differently. It is in deeds that we know the fruit and heart of the believer, not in his words, which are lost to the air.
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@faith
Congress could do something about it if it wanted to.
"California Democrat Ro Khanna introduced a resolution invoking the 1973 War Powers Act, declaring that Congress never authorized U.S. support for the coalition in Yemen and directing President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. troops from “hostilities” against the Houthis"
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/26/yemen-us-military-house-resolution/
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I am devastated at the cruelty in this world, especially cruelty to our children. This is gut-wrenching hard to look at but applaud your decision to publish. I’m remotivated to fight against greed and power brokers whose amorality steal the lives of the innocent.
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@MJ LaBelle
Your comment has brought me to tears, much the same as the horrific photos of these poor, innocent little babies have.
VOTE, PEOPLE, VOTE to end the terrible far-right wing hold on our government!!!
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Thank you NYT for publishing these horrifying images.
Where is the rest of the World?
Have we no conscience or sense of humanity?
How can America participate in this heartless endeavor?
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@Michael Richter
Why is America involved?
This is such a sad,sad, story. Thank you Ny times for publishing it.
@George
Why is America involved?
Look to Trump's attitude towards Iran and Israel to find the bogus reasons, and follow the money.
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Thank you TImes for doing this. Please keep that photo on the front page until Saudi Arabia wakes up from the cruelty it has imposed.
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Thank you for doing this.
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and we sell arms to the people who cause this tragedy! Shame!
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@Donna Yavorsky Not only sell arms but provided real time intelligence and in-flight refueling for the bomb laden aircraft many of which have targeted civilians. The US has also been silently complicit in allowing a de facto blockade of Yemen so aid cannot get through to civilians.
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As a world we have failed Yemen.
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Particularly the US. As long as we have these things in the Oval Office, nothing will change!
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How can we help?
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Give a subscription to the NY Times.
I am confused as to why you even wrote this piece explaining the photos. Of course you should publish these photos. They provide insight into a horrible event, one that people in the US are reluctant to care about. We would rather be obsessed with our very well off lives and our (by any comparison) petty problems instead of thinking about the people in Yemen and how to help the people there. Instead, write a piece on the appropriate aid agencies located there-IRC, Oxfam, Save the Children, Red Cross/Crescent-and how it helps.
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Bravo.
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Thank You for sharing these photos. We need to all look at these photos & than call our congressman & tell them to withdraw support for Saudi Arabia & this horrific war.
Please thank your journalist for there brave work.
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Thank you for publishing this powerful report and those photographs. Although the photos are horrific and extremely difficult to look at, I think it is important that we Americans see what is actually happening to the people in Yemen. We must also acknowledge that as long as we blindly support Saudi Arabia, as long as we continue to sell them military hardware, we are complicit in the deaths of these innocent people.
I do wish an addendum had been added to the report, listing ways we might be able to help, from putting pressure on our leaders to making financial donations to organizations working in the region.
Finally, what the Saudis did to Jamal Khashoggi was barbaric. I only hope that his murder convinces people everywhere that no one is above the law, we must have justice and we must begin putting human rights before profits.
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