Readers blog: The world, and Ireland, must wake up to genocide in Yemen

Genocide is defined as “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”. 

What is happening in Yemen at present falls within this category yet the international community is actively facilitating rather than preventing it.

In the 1990s when questioned by a reporter about up to half a million children who died as a result of UN and Western imposed sanctions on Iraq, US Secretary of State Madeline Albright replied “Yes I believe it was worth it”.