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Alex de Waal argued in December 2020 that the looting by the EDF of cars, generators, food stores, cattle, sheep and goats in Tigray Region was a violation of international criminal law that "prohibits a belligerent from removing, destroying or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population" (Rome Statute ...
Bridget Conley and Alex de Waal enumerate several reasons why a perpetrator might choose to employ starvation: "(i) extermination or genocide; (ii) control through weakening a population; (iii) gaining territorial control; (iv) flushing out a population; (v) punishment; (vi) material extraction or theft; (vii) extreme exploitation; (viii) war provisioning; and (ix) comprehensive societal ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Gaza Strip famine A victim of the famine in northern Gaza Country Palestine Location Gaza Strip Total deaths 41+; [a] [b] [c] Causes Gaza war (including war, humanitarian aid blockade, destruction of food and water infrastructure, looting) Relief Humanitarian aid Consequences 1.84 million people in ...
In the 1990s, de Waal focused on the intersection between human rights violations and famine, including censorship and the use of starvation as a weapon of war. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He was sharply critical of the role of humanitarian organizations in downplaying the politics and criminality of famine, arguing that an anti-famine political contract was ...
This horror is caused in part by our decision to facilitate a bombing campaign that is murdering children and to endorse a Saudi strategy inside Yemen that is deliberately using disease and starvation and the withdrawal of humanitarian support as a tactic." [63] The British researcher Alex de Waal has considered the famine in Yemen as
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Although a UN estimate of one million deaths is often quoted for the 1983–1985 famine, this figure has been challenged by famine scholar Alex de Waal. In a major study, de Waal criticized the United Nations for being "remarkably cavalier" about the numbers of people who died, with the UN's one-million figure having "absolutely no scientific ...
In the view of John Drysdale, the UN secretary-general's claim that starvation was a direct result of continuing insecurity in Somalia during late 1992 was, "…dubious in the extreme". [12] By November 1992, largely owing to the mediation led by UNOSOM I head Mohamed Sahnoun , aid was flowing through the Mogadishu port unimpeded, with theft ...