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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 ...
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 ...
Analyst Alex de Waal looks at how the US president-elect could deal with conflicts on the continent. Unconventional Trump brings openings and perils for Africa Skip to main content
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 ...
Professor Alex de Waal noted this was an optimistic assessment and that the number was likely higher, but asserted that much of what was counted in the figure was not hijackings or robberies. A significant portion of the food considered under the umbrella of an "unaccounted loss" was actually given up through agreements between the ICRC and its ...
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
An Ohio doctor is being charged with arson after authorities said he set another local doctor’s house on fire, according to reports. Dr. Andrew Campbell, 33, was charged in connection to a Dec ...