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Yemen war: WFP accuses Houthi rebels of diverting food aid
The World Food Programme has demanded Yemen's rebel Houthi movement stops diverting desperately needed food aid from people in areas under its control. A survey by the UN agency said people in the capital Sanaa had not received rations to which they were entitled.
The WFP said lorries were illegally removing food from distribution areas, with rations sold on the open market or given to those not entitled to it. There was no response from the Houthis, but they have denied diverting aid.
The UN says some 20 million Yemenis are food insecure and that 10 million of them do not know how they will obtain their next meal.
[...] Earlier on Monday, the Associated Press reported that factions and militias on all sides of the conflict had blocked food aid from going to groups suspected of disloyalty, diverted it to combat units or sold it for profit.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 02 2019, @02:31AM
Your weak attempt at diversion is pathetic. You didn't even address my post.
So was slavery. Maybe we should have done nothing about that either, right ?
For millions of years, the only form of inter-species interaction on Earth was predation. But then evolution occured, and other forms appeared, like symbiosis. You may think that symbiosis is still a very small percentage of all forms of interaction, but you'd be wrong, because you'd ignore the fact that you, the human race, in fact, every simgle aerobic multicellular lifeform on this planet, basically all plants and animals, exist because inside every single cell in their bodies, there exist ancient aerobic bacteria call mitochondria that allow them to use oxygen as an energy source.
For thousands of years, the only forms of inter-tribe human interactions were slavery, war and bloodshed. But then humans evolved. Just like nature, they began to figure out that cooperation was more productive than competiton. Civilizations started to appear, bringing commerce, justice, peaceful resolution of conflicts. Only then did humans start to spread around the globe, increase their population, their quality of life, their life expectancy. Only then did they start to develop art, science.
Those you call "snowflakes" are simply those who aspire to develop civilization further, to eventually see the end of suffering, pain, and bloodshed. To see a planetary human society based on cooperation, on symbiosis, instead of predation. This is not some idealistic, touchy-feely delusional pipe-dream, this is evolution.
"Snowflakes" are evolved. But people like you are primitive. They are like those cells who refuse to play by the new rules of cooperating and orchestrated multi-cellular organisms, and want to continue to act like they always acted for the first billion or so years of life on Earth, as single celled organisms fending only for themselves and seeing other organisms in only one of two ways: a competitor to eradicate, or a resource to exploit. Do you know how we call these cells ? Cancer.
That's what people like you are: A Cancer of human civilization. People with a primitive, prehistoric, sociopathic thinking who have no concept of morality or ethics, and who see other people only as one of the two roles above, and see no evil in that. People that see no problem in having a child molester and psychopath as the leader of their country, as long as he serves their purpose. But again, you're too arrogant, full of yourself and self-righteous to admit that.
So you may want to waste your time writing a reply to this, but this will be my last post on this thread. I don't waste my time with cavemen.