I don’t understand, are you upset that they choose to fight back instead of sit back and die regardless? Again, the genocide has killed over 8 times as many children. How is your focus not on the genocide.
The child soldiers are not choosing to fight back. That’s just not what is going on and it’s disgusting that you are suggesting forced conscripts are doing something by choice.
Not even human rights groups are on your side on this.
No, I’m saying it’s the material conditions that are responsible, which are caused by the ongoing genocide. How would I know any of their motivations, I have no idea what it’s like it grow up under a genocide.
You’re still not recognizing that the root cause of all of this is still the genocide. Ending that is the only way to end the child recruitment, not bombing them more.
Human Rights Watch has also documented the Houthis’ use of much-needed humanitarian assistance to recruit men and children to their forces. At least 21.6 million people in Yemen, about two-thirds of the population, need some form of humanitarian assistance, and 80 percent of the country struggles to put food on the table and access basic services, according to the UN Population Fund.
“While the main reason for families to send their children is their position supporting the Palestinian cause, Houthis offer salaries and food baskets for families of those who are willing to join them, which works well given the deteriorated humanitarian and economic situation,” said a female human rights activist in Sanaa.
The ongoing US and UK-led airstrikes on Yemen have reportedly increased domestic support for the Houthis, strengthening the Houthis’ ability to recruit children. Maysaa Shujaa Aldeen, a researcher at the Sana’a Center For Strategic Studies, told the Washington Post that the “Houthis are connecting their attacks in the Red Sea to support [for] Gaza, which is a moral pretext for most people in the MENA region. These attacks have increased their ability to recruit, especially in the northern tribal areas.”
The root cause is irrelevant when it comes to forcing child soldiers onto the front line. There is no way to frame that other than flagrant human rights abuse. Trying to excuse human rights abuses because someone else is committing genocide is ridiculous and sickening.
The genocide is not irrelevant, are you being intentionally obtuse here? That is the main relevance. It’s the direct cause of the conditions in Yemen and the main cause of death by a wide wide margin. If you don’t care about the root cause, you don’t genuinely care about the problem or it’s resolution, because you’re ignoring the obvious solution of ending the genocide
Are you seriously asking how Genocide is a greater threat? Over 5 times as many children have died to starvation alone
If the child is going to die either way, it isn’t a greater threat. It’s an equal threat.
That’s not how Genocide works. It targets children regardless
So do people shooting at child soldiers. The child will die either way.
I don’t understand, are you upset that they choose to fight back instead of sit back and die regardless? Again, the genocide has killed over 8 times as many children. How is your focus not on the genocide.
The child soldiers are not choosing to fight back. That’s just not what is going on and it’s disgusting that you are suggesting forced conscripts are doing something by choice.
Not even human rights groups are on your side on this.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/13/yemen-houthis-recruit-more-child-soldiers-october-7
No, I’m saying it’s the material conditions that are responsible, which are caused by the ongoing genocide. How would I know any of their motivations, I have no idea what it’s like it grow up under a genocide.
You’re still not recognizing that the root cause of all of this is still the genocide. Ending that is the only way to end the child recruitment, not bombing them more.
The root cause is irrelevant when it comes to forcing child soldiers onto the front line. There is no way to frame that other than flagrant human rights abuse. Trying to excuse human rights abuses because someone else is committing genocide is ridiculous and sickening.
The genocide is not irrelevant, are you being intentionally obtuse here? That is the main relevance. It’s the direct cause of the conditions in Yemen and the main cause of death by a wide wide margin. If you don’t care about the root cause, you don’t genuinely care about the problem or it’s resolution, because you’re ignoring the obvious solution of ending the genocide